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Shadow of the Silk Road by Colin Thubron
$34.95 AUD
Category: Travel Literature | Reading Level: very good
There was never one Silk Road - but several. The route chosen by Colin Thubron passes through China, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan, Iran and Turkey, taking in the most sterile desert on earth (the Taklamakan) and the strife-torn mountain valleys of today's conflicts, as he travels from the tomb of ...Show more
Shadow of the Silk Road: (Vintage Voyages) by Colin Thubron
$19.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature | Series: Vintage Voyages Ser.
VINTAGE VOYAGES- A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mindOn 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 pla ...Show more
The Amur River: Between Russia and China by Colin Thubron
$35.00 AUD
Category: Social & Cultural Notes
Follow our greatest travel writer (and rusty Mandarin speaker) along the far eastern river that separates Russia from China, the two great ex-Communist giants, taking in Mongolia, Siberia and the Sea of Japan A dramatic and ambitious new journey for our greatest travel writer Colin Thubron, at 79, will ...Show more
The Amur River: Between Russia and China by Colin Thubron
$24.99 AUD
Category: World Matters: Social Cultural, Philosophy, Psychology, Spirituality
A dramatic and ambitious new journey for our greatest travel writerColin Thubron, at 79, will travel the important but almost unknown Amur River - the tenth longest river in the world - that separates Russia from China in the Far East. The river rises in the mountains of north-east Mongolia (heartland o ...Show more
To a Mountain in Tibet by Colin Thubron
$29.95 AUD
Category: Travel Literature | Reading Level: very good
"In his new book, Colin Thubron travels to Tibet, and takes the pilgrimage route to Kailas, the most sacred of the world s mountains, holy to one fifth of the earth s people, but rarely visited by westerners. Buddhists and Hindus have ritually circled the mountain for centuries, but its steepest slopes ...Show more
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