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To The Last City
  • Published: 15 June 2003
  • ISBN: 9780099437239
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 176
  • RRP: $45.00

To The Last City

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'Colin Thubron's voice is unique: once heard, difficult to forget' Anita Brookner

To the Last City is set deep in the Peruvian Andes, where five ill-prepared travellers - men and women with different values, temperaments and motives - find themselves trekking through one of the most exacting and beautiful regions on earth.

It is a journey which may temper or destroy them. They confront not only their relationships with one another, but also the enigmas of the country's past, the dangers of its present, and the limitations of their own minds and bodies. The 'lost city' of their destination is Vilcabamba, last refuge of the Inca against the Spaniards, subsumed by jungle for four hundred years.

In this brilliant exploration of the psychological challenges of travelling, set within the exotic jungle of South America, Colin Thubron for the first time joins his highly acclaimed talents as a travel writer with his gifts as a novelist.
  • Published: 15 June 2003
  • ISBN: 9780099437239
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 176
  • RRP: $45.00
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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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Also by Colin Thubron

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Shadow of the Silk Road
The Amur River
To a Mountain in Tibet
Journey Into Cyprus
Passage
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Praise for To The Last City

One of our most compelling contemporary novelists

Independent

Colin Thubron's voice is unique: once heard, difficult to forget

Anita Brookner

Colin Thubron seems to be a writer undaunted by immensity, either of place or plot... To the Last City is haunting and passionate and, above all, magnificently fearless

Observer

A tense, precarious achievement, brilliantly evoking a dangerous journey

The Times

It is the sharpness of the topography that brings this book to life, the handling of the characters is equally impressive... Thubron has captured, with a vividness that few could match...the charms of a journey into the unknown

Sunday Telegraph

An intriguing and worthwhile success

Times Literary Supplement