Classic Silk Road Journey
Shadow of the Silk Road : (Vintage Voyages)
On buses, donkey carts, trains, jeeps and camels, Colin Thubron traces the drifts of the first great trade route out of the heart of China into the mountains of Central Asia, across northern Afghanistan and the plains of Iran into Kurdish Turkey.
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About the book
His beautiful prose unfolds along the Silk Road, unearthing a richly layered past on his most ambitious journey. A magnificent account of an ancient world in modern ferment, Thubron covers over 7000 miles in eight months, enduring a near-miss with a drunk-driver, incarceration in a Chinese cell, and undergoing root canal treatment without anaesthetic along the way.
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Published by Vintage Publishing
