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Shadow of the Silk Road
  • Published: 6 August 2019
  • ISBN: 9781784875343
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 384
  • RRP: $30.00
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Shadow of the Silk Road

(Vintage Voyages)

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6 Aug 2019
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3 Dec 2007
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VINTAGE VOYAGES: A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mind


  • Published: 6 August 2019
  • ISBN: 9781784875343
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 384
  • RRP: $30.00
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About the author

Colin Thubron

COLIN THUBRON is a celebrated travel writer, winner of many prizes and awards. His classic travel books include: Among the Russians (1983), Behind the Wall (1987), In Siberia (1999), Shadow of the Silk Road (2006) and The Amur River (2021). He is also the author of eight acclaimed works of fiction, including A Cruel Madness (1984), winner of the PEN/Macmillan Silver Pen Award, To the Last City, long-listed for the Booker Prize (2002), and Night of Fire (2017). Passage is his ninth novel, shaped by a journey to Egypt.
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Praise for Shadow of the Silk Road

It is hard to think of a better travel book written this century

The Times

A beautiful and profound travel book

Mail on Sunday

A masterpiece of travel writing ... a classic

New Statesman

Impresses with its scholarship and literary craft

Ian Thomson, Observer

A poetic volume - interesting, shocking and deeply engaging, the work of a mature writer at the top of his game

Sara Wheeler, Daily Telegraph

Thubron is a very hardy traveller, and a very fine writer...[it is] a book of exceptional erudition, adventure and elegance

Robert Macfarlane, Spectator

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