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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.
An intrepid traveller, who also writes beautifully, with wit and erudition... The result is a rare first-hand account of a country seen through the eyes of one who has experienced what he describes and who is in a position to understand what he sees... He penetrates where most would believe it is impossible for a foreigner to go * Spectator * A travel book which tells us more about this strange, sometimes terrible region and its people than a library of more pretentious works * Literary Review * This transcendentally gifted writer is, of course, one of the two or three best living travel writers * Independent * An achievement of great and lasting brilliance -- Patrick Leigh Fermor
River at the Center of the World...
A Journey Up the Yangtze, and Back...
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