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| #402166 in Books | Thubron, Colin | 2008-07-01 | 2008-07-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.00 x.90 x5.31l,.67 | File type: PDF | 400 pages | Harper Perennial||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Facinating|By Belinda J. Walker|A beautifully written, extremely well researched account of the author's travels along the ancient silk road from China to the Medterranean. I don't usually read travel books, but this was enthralling: from the historical research to his own adventures and encounters with people of many nationalities all along the way, Colin Thubron's touch is no|From Publishers Weekly|Starred . In his latest absorbing travel epic, Thubron (In Siberia; Mirror to Damascus) follows the course—or at least the general drift—of the ancient network of trade routes that connected central China
To travel the Silk Road, the greatest land route on earth, is to trace the passage not only of trade and armies but also of ideas, religions, and inventions. Making his way by local bus, truck, car, donkey cart, and camel, Colin Thubron covered some seven thousand miles in eight months—out of the heart of China into the mountains of Central Asia, across northern Afghanistan and the plains of Iran into Kurdish Turkey—and explored an ancient world in modern ...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Shadow of the Silk Road (P.S.) | Colin Thubron.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.
