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ISBN: 9780099532644 - To a Mountain in Tibet

To a Mountain in Tibet
Thubron, Colin

ISBN10: 9781446467183 ISBN13: 9781446467183
Publisher: Random House Vintage Digital
Format: Electronic Book
TOP TEN BESTSELLER Mount Kailas is the most sacred of the world's mountains - holy to one fifth of humanity. Isolated beyond the central Himalayas, its summit has never been scaled, but for centuries the mountain has been ritually circled by... More

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ISBN: 9780061231773 - Shadow of the Silk Road

Shadow of the Silk Road
Thubron, Colin

ISBN10: 9781446499788 ISBN13: 9781446499788
Publisher: Random House Vintage Digital
Format: Electronic Book
On buses, donkey carts, trains, jeeps and camels, Colin Thubron traces the drifts of the first great trade route out of the heart of China into the mountains of Central Asia, across northern Afghanistan and the plains of Iran into Kurdish Turkey. More

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ISBN: 9781446499665 - Lost Heart Of Asia

Lost Heart Of Asia
Thubron, Colin

ISBN10: 9781446499665 ISBN13: 9781446499665
Publisher: Random House Vintage Digital
Format: Electronic Book
Thubron travelled throughout Central Asia in the wake of the break-up of the Soviet Union and documented the widespread social upheaval in a region reeling from political change. An inspirational writer, intrepid traveller and insightful observer... More

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Distance
Thubron, Colin

ISBN10: 9781446499658 ISBN13: 9781446499658
Publisher: Random House Vintage Digital
Format: Electronic Book
Edward has lost his short term-memory. He hopes it will return when he sees the cottage in which he lives. He recognizes his overcoat on the hook, his books, the double bed. The mystery however, is Naomi. Edward has no recollection of who she is... More

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ISBN: 9781446499672 - Turning Back The Sun

Turning Back The Sun
Thubron, Colin

ISBN10: 9781446499672 ISBN13: 9781446499672
Publisher: Random House Vintage Digital
Format: Electronic Book
Far away from the city of his birth, in a frontier town on the edge of tribal wilderness, a doctor tries to resolve the seemingly unreconcilable demands of his public career and his personal feelings. He believes his exile her to be temporary... More

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Behind The Wall
Thubron, Colin

ISBN10: 9781446499641 ISBN13: 9781446499641
Publisher: Random House Vintage Digital
Format: Electronic Book
Having learned Mandarin, and travelling alone by foot, bicycle and train, Colin Thubron set off on a 10,000 mile journey from Beijing to Tibet, starting from a tropical paradise near the Burmese border to the windswept wastes of the Gobi desert... More

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ISBN: 9781446499634 - Among The Russians

Among The Russians
Thubron, Colin

ISBN10: 9781446499634 ISBN13: 9781446499634
Publisher: Random House Vintage Digital
Format: Electronic Book
Among the Russians is a marvellous account of a solitary journey by car from St. Petersburg and the Baltic States south to Georgia and Armenia. A gifted writer and intrepid traveller, Thubron grapples with the complexities of Russian identity and... More

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ISBN: 9781446483657 - Mirror To Damascus

Mirror To Damascus
Thubron, Colin

ISBN10: 9781446483657 ISBN13: 9781446483657
Publisher: Random House Vintage Digital
Format: Electronic Book
Described by the author as simply 'a work of love', Mirror to Damascus provides an enthralling and fascinating history of Damascus from the Amorites of the Bible to the revolution of 1966, as well a being a charming and witty personal record of a... More

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Hills Of Adonis
Thubron, Colin

ISBN10: 9781446483664 ISBN13: 9781446483664
Publisher: Random House Vintage Digital
Format: Electronic Book
Ostensibly this is a book about Lebanon, finely written and deeply felt - not the Lebanon which a Beirut businessman would recognize, but a coastline of small historic ports and a littoral of beautiful mountains. In this country the ruins of... More

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In Siberia
Thubron, Colin

ISBN10: 9781446499504 ISBN13: 9781446499504
Publisher: Random House Vintage Digital
Format: Electronic Book
This is the account of Thubron's 15,000-mile journey through an astonishing country - one twelfth of the land surface of the whole earth. He journeyed by train, river and truck among the people most damaged by the breakup of the Soviet Union... More

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