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Shadow of the Silk Road

by Colin Thubron
Publisher: Harper Perennial (2008)    |     ISBN 10: 0061231770    |     ISBN 13: 9780061231773
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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 ferment.
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Colin Thubron is a well-known travel writer and novelist. His first books were about the Middle East — Damascus, Lebanon and Cyprus. In 1982 he travelled by car into the ......
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