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Colin Thubron was born in London in 1939. His earliest travel books were about the Middle East and include Mirror to Damascus and Jerusalem. In the last of the Brezhnev years he explored Western Russia by car and wrote Among the Russians. Later, a gruelling journey took him to some of the remotest regions of China for his Behind the Wall, which won the Hawthornden Prize and the Thomas Cook Travel Award. Eight years later Thubron wrote The Lost Heart of Asia, which describes his travels through Central Asia. In Siberia chronicles his extensive journey through the region mostly by boat and bus. Thubron has also been numbered among 'the current masters of the short novel' (TLS), and called 'one of our most compelling contemporary novelists' (Independent). His fiction includes Falling, Emperor, A Cruel Madness, Turning Back the Sun and Distance. His most recent travel book in Vintage is To the Last City.
The Soviet Union is seen through a glass brightly... What makes the book so readable is Thubron's combination of an artist's aesthetic sensitivity with the literary craftsmanship to convey it. He sees things with the freshness of an innocent and the erudition of a scholar * Daily Telegraph * Superb... one of the best books on Russia to appear in years * New York Times * Travel writing has never been more provocative, profound or poetic * Time Out * The Thubron approach to travelling has an integrity that belongs to another age. And this author's way with words gives his books a value far transcending their topical interest; it is safe to predict they will be read a century hence * Irish Times * The perfect guide to one of the world's most enigmatic cultures -- Christie Hickman * Sunday Express *
