Colin Thubron: 13 books

“Colin Thubron is the intrepid, resourceful and immensely talented writer who has made a career out of going to out of the way places and then writing brilliantly about them.”—Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World  “Thanks to Thubron, we encounter a world which, in its beauty...

As mysterious as its beautiful, as forbidding as it is populated with warm-hearted people, Syberia is a land few Westerners know, and even fewer will ever visit. Traveling alone, by train, boat, car, and on foot, Colin Thubron traversed this vast territory, talking to everyone he encountered about...

Award-winning, bestselling novelist and travel writer Colin Thubron returns to fiction with his first novel in more than a decade, a searing, poetic masterwork of memory. A house is burning, threatening the existence of its six tenants—including a failed priest; a naturalist; a neurosurgeon;...

Shadow of the Silk Road records a journey along the greatest land route on earth. Out of the heart of China into the mountains of Central Asia, across northern Afghanistan and the plains of Iran and into Kurdish Turkey, Colin Thubron covers some seven thousand miles in eight months. Making his way...

Il monte Kailash è la montagna più sacra del mondo, venerata da un quinto dell'umanità. Isolato alle spalle dell'Himalaya centrale, secondo il mito sarebbe la fonte dell'universo scaturito dalle acque cosmiche e dalla mente di Brahma. La sua vetta non è mai stata espugnata, ma per secoli pellegrini...

È solo da pochi anni che per la prima volta i viaggiatori stranieri possono muoversi all’interno della Siberia senza troppi problemi. Risalendo il grande fiume Enisej fino all’Artico, attraverso le montagne che increspano la Mongolia, e poi a est verso il fiume Amur, il Pacifico e il gulag abbandonato...

Un paese a lungo considerato oscuro e inquietante, un passato fitto di contraddizioni: primo fra gli scrittori di viaggio occidentali, Colin Thubron ha esplorato alla vigilia dei tumulti di Tian’anmen questo territorio immenso, parlando con la gente comune e percorrendo senza un itinerario preciso...

La storia millenaria, e in gran parte consegnata alla leggenda, della Via della Seta continua ad affascinare segretamente la modernità. In un viaggio tra misticismo, conflittualità, mistero, Colin Thubron ripercorre le strade che per secoli hanno dato vita a una «globalizzazione», arcaica quanto...

Here is a fresh perspective on the last tumultuous years of the Soviet Union and an exquisitely poetic travelogue.With a keen grasp of Russia's history, a deep appreciation for its architecture and iconography, and an inexhaustible enthusiasm for its people and its culture, Colin Thubron is the perfect...

A land of enormous proportions, countless secrets, and incredible history, Central Asia was the heart of the great Mongol empire of Tamerlane and scene of Stalin's cruelest deportations. A remote and fascinating region in a constant state of transition—never more so than since the collapse of the...

50TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR Described by the author as simply 'a work of love', Mirror to Damascus provides a rich and fascinating history of Damascus from the Amorites of the Bible to the revolution of 1966, and is also a charming and witty personal record...

All’indomani della caduta del colosso sovietico e dell’indipendenza delle cinque repubbliche centro-asiatiche, Colin Thubron intraprende un lungo viaggio tra le rovine ancora fumanti di uno dei più grandi imperi dell’era moderna. Seguendo l’antichissima Via della seta, calcando le orme di...

When two bodies wash up on the river bank in a frontier town in Australia and the aborigines are blamed for the murder, racial hatred erupts, causing resentment among the aborigines and fear among the whites.