Ebook {Epub PDF} Shadow of the Silk Road by Colin Thubron

 · Colin Thubron is an acclaimed travel writer and novelist. His first books were about the Middle East – Damascus, Lebanon and Cyprus. In he travelled by car into the Soviet Union, a journey he described in Among the Russians. From these early experiences developed his classic travel books: Behind the Wall: A Journey through China (winner of the Hawthornden Prize and the Thomas Brand: HarperCollins Publishers. Shadow 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 . "Shadow of the Silk Road", by Colin Thubron, delivers a wonderful tale of his adventures along the Silk Road as it exists today. Indeed, the classic Silk Road of antiquity, extending from the Mediterranean Sea to Central China, can still be traced in many places. Thubron did just that, and "Shadow of the Silk Road" is the story of that bltadwin.ru by:

Shadow of the Silk Road is a phenomenal book. The author, British travel writer Colin Thubron, traveled from Xian, an ancient capital of China, to Antioch in Turkey along the silk road, blending broad historical knowledge with acute observations of contemporary life. Shadow 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 travels from the Tomb of the Yellow Emperor (the mythic progenitor of the Chinese people) to the ancient. Colin Thurbon's beautiful prose unfolds along the Silk Road, unearthing a richly layered past on his most ambitious journey. 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.

Colin Thubron is an acclaimed travel writer and novelist. His first books were about the Middle. A journey along the Silk Road -- 7, miles from China to Turkey -- a brilliant account of an ancient world in modern ferment quite simply a masterpiece.'. Shadow of the Silk Road is a book about a journey that took Colin Thubron through the countries in Central Asia where the famous trading route ran across. Starting in Chinese Xian and finishing in Antakya (Turkey).