Produktdetaljer
Om bidragsyterne
Colin Thubron is the master of classic travel writing, and a previous winner of the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award. His first writing was about the Middle East - Damascus, Lebanon and Cyprus. In 1982 he travelled all over Russia in an ancient Morris Marina - pursued at every stage by the KGB. From these early experiences developed his travel books: Among the Russians, Behind the Wall, The Lost Heart of Asia and In Siberia (all available in Vintage). So great is his dedication to travelling in Russia and China, that he has learned Russian and Mandarin in order to be able to speak to ordinary people en route.
Colin Thubron is also a prize-winning novelist - but his travel books have a much higher profile and command much greater sales than his fiction. He lives in West London.
<b>It is hard to think of a better travel book written this century</b>
The Times
<b>A beautiful and profound travel book</b>
Mail on Sunday
<b>A masterpiece of travel writing ... a classic</b>
New Statesman
Thubron is a very hardy traveller, and a very fine writer...[it is] <b>a book of exceptional erudition, adventure and elegance</b>
- Robert Macfarlane, Spectator
A poetic volume - <b>interesting, shocking and deeply engaging,</b> the work of a mature writer at the top of his game
- Sara Wheeler, Daily Telegraph
Impresses with its scholarship and literary craft
- Ian Thomson, Observer
He effortlessly interweaves the present with the fast-disappearing past, and reminds even the well-travelled how much we still have to learn about our planet...Thubron takes us on a fascinating journey that shows that travel writing at its best can still approach literature and can still educate
- Stephen Fidler, Financial Times
Produktdetaljer
Om bidragsyterne
Colin Thubron is the master of classic travel writing, and a previous winner of the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award. His first writing was about the Middle East - Damascus, Lebanon and Cyprus. In 1982 he travelled all over Russia in an ancient Morris Marina - pursued at every stage by the KGB. From these early experiences developed his travel books: Among the Russians, Behind the Wall, The Lost Heart of Asia and In Siberia (all available in Vintage). So great is his dedication to travelling in Russia and China, that he has learned Russian and Mandarin in order to be able to speak to ordinary people en route.
Colin Thubron is also a prize-winning novelist - but his travel books have a much higher profile and command much greater sales than his fiction. He lives in West London.