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A journey along the greatest land route on earth, from the master of travel writing Colin Thubron 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 of Iran into Kurdish Turkey. Covering over 7000 miles in eight months Thubron recounts extraordinary adventures - a near-miss with a drunk-driver, incarceration in a Chinese cell during the SARS epidemic, undergoing root canal treatment without anaesthetic in Iran - in inimitable prose. Shadow of the Silk Road is about Asia today; a magnificent account of an ancient world in modern ferment. 'It is hard to think of a better travel book written this century' Times
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Shadow of the Silk Road, Colin Thubron
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- Rok vydání
- 2007
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- Jazyk
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- Colin Thubron
- Vydavatel
- Vintage Books
- Rok vydání
- 2007
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- měkká
- Počet stran
- 384
- ISBN10
- 0099437228
- ISBN13
- 9780099437222
- Série
- Štítky
- Naučná literatura, Společenské vědy, Historické téma, Mapy & Cestování, Skutečné příběhy, Historie, Politologie & Politika, Cestování, Dobrodružství, Politika, Cestopisy, Britská literatura, Čína, Asie, 21. století, Muzea, Komunismus, Chudoba, Vězení, Írán, Římská říše, Turecko, Pouště
- Původní název
- Shadow of the Silk Road
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- A journey along the greatest land route on earth, from the master of travel writing Colin Thubron 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 of Iran into Kurdish Turkey. Covering over 7000 miles in eight months Thubron recounts extraordinary adventures - a near-miss with a drunk-driver, incarceration in a Chinese cell during the SARS epidemic, undergoing root canal treatment without anaesthetic in Iran - in inimitable prose. Shadow of the Silk Road is about Asia today; a magnificent account of an ancient world in modern ferment. 'It is hard to think of a better travel book written this century' Times