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Shadow of the Silk Road by Colin Thubron (2007, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherHarperCollins
ISBN-10006123172X
ISBN-139780061231728
eBay Product ID (ePID)19038201050
Product Key Features
Book TitleShadow of the Silk Road
Number of Pages384 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicAsia / General, Asia / Central, Middle East / General
Publication Year2007
GenreTravel, History
AuthorColin Thubron
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.2 in
Item Weight21.2 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2006-052142
Dewey Edition22
ReviewsA fantastically descriptive writer, Thubron digs through the history of Central Asia...Perfect for vicarious travelers., [Thubron] augments his trenchant narrative with impressive historical background and evocative, lyrical prose...An impressive, rewarding...trek., Thubron has done it all, with sparkling grace . . . He is a brilliant brooder, artful in his melancholy., Moving in a way that's rare in travel literature...Thubron goes to places most other sojourners can't., [Thubron] augments his trenchant narrative with impressive historical background and evocative, lyrical prose.An impressive, rewarding...trek., [An] absorbing travel epic...Thubron's poetic eye still teases out gorgeous subtleties in the panorama.", "Moving in a way that's rare in travel literature...Thubron goes to places most other sojourners can't." -- Lorraine Adams, New York Times Book Review "[Thubron is] intrepid, resourceful . . . and immensely talented . . . a splendid book." -- Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World "Thubron has done it all, with sparkling grace . . . He is a brilliant brooder, artful in his melancholy." -- San Francisco Chronicle "An exhausting journey and a marvelous book." -- Harper's Magazine "A fantastically descriptive writer, Thubron digs through the history of Central Asia...Perfect for vicarious travelers." -- New York magazine "An illuminating account of a breathtaking journey." -- Booklist "[An] absorbing travel epic...Thubron's poetic eye still teases out gorgeous subtleties in the panorama."" -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) "[Thubron] augments his trenchant narrative with impressive historical background and evocative, lyrical prose...An impressive, rewarding...trek." -- Kirkus Reviews "Splendid...Sumptuously detailed, elegantly written and riveting...Thubron misses nothing." -- Providence Journal, [An] absorbing travel epic.Thubron's poetic eye still teases out gorgeous subtleties in the panorama."
Dewey Decimal915.8
SynopsisShadow of the Silk Road records a journey along the greatest land route on earth. Out of the heart of China into the mountains of Central Asia, across northern Afghanistan and the plains of Iran and into Kurdish Turkey, Colin Thubron covers some seven thousand miles in eight months. Making his way by local bus, truck, car, donkey cart and camel, he travels from the tomb of the Yellow Emperor, the mythic progenitor of the Chinese people, to the ancient port of Antioch--in perhaps the most difficult and ambitious journey he has undertaken in forty years of travel. The Silk Road is a huge network of arteries splitting and converging across the breadth of Asia. To travel it is to trace the passage not only of trade and armies but also of ideas, religions and inventions. But alongside this rich and astonishing past, Shadow of the Silk Road is also about Asia today: a continent of upheaval. One of the trademarks of Colin Thubron's travel writing is the beauty of his prose; another is his gift for talking to people and getting them to talk to him. Shadow of the Silk Road encounters Islamic countries in many forms. It is about changes in China, transformed since the Cultural Revolution. It is about false nationalisms and the world's discontented margins, where the true boundaries are not political borders but the frontiers of tribe, ethnicity, language and religion. It is a magnificent and important account of an ancient world in modern ferment., To be traveling the Silk Road is to be traveling the history of the world: tracing the passage not just of trade and armies, but also of ideas, religions, and inventions. Thubrons chosen route passes through China, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan, Iran, and Turkey.
LC Classification NumberDS327.7.T48 2007
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