SHADOW OF THE SILK ROAD by Colin Thubron ( 9780099437222 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

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Title:

SHADOW OF THE SILK ROAD

By:

Colin Thubron

Format:

Paperback

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ISBN 10:

0099437228

ISBN 13:

9780099437222

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Publisher:

VINTAGE PUBLISHING

Pub. date:

4 October, 2007

Pages:

384

Description:

Traces the drifts of the 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. This book recounts the adventures of the author when travelling through the Silk Route.

Synopsis:

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. Covering over 7000 miles in eight months Thurbron recounts extraordinary adventures - a near-miss with a drunk-driver, incarceration in a Chinese cell during the SARS epidemic, undergoing root canal treatment without anaesthetic in Iran - in inimitable prose. "Shadow of the Silk Road" is about Asia today; a magnificent account of an ancient world in modern ferment.

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Imprint:

Vintage

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