by Colin Thubron · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782070413522
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«L'ombre de la route de la Soie» is Colin Thubron's travelogue, published by Gallimard in paperback (560 pages, in French).
Following the footsteps of the ancient Silk Road, Colin Thubron travels eleven thousand kilometres from China to Turkey through Uzbekistan, Afghanistan and Iran. Over eight months he journeys by camel, on horseback and on crowded trains and buses, and along the way he lives among ordinary people and evokes characters and ghosts of history, painting a portrait of a region where past and present intertwine.
Work originally published in English as «Shadow of the Silk Road» in 2007. This French edition, published in 2010, belongs to Gallimard's Folio Voyage collection.
Work for readers of travel literature and chronicles on Central Asia, with an interest in history, memory and exploration.
Colin Gerald Dryden Thubron is a British travel writer and novelist. In 2008, The Times ranked him among the 50 greatest postwar British writers. He is a contributor to The New York Review of Books, The Times, The Times Literary Supplement and The New York Times. His books have been translated into more than twenty languages. Thubron was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2007 New Year Honours. He is a Fellow and, between 2009 and 2017, was President of the Royal Society of Literature.
