Colin Thurbon¿s beautiful prose unfolds along the Silk Road unearthing a richly layered past
on his most ambitious journey. 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. A
magnificent account of an ancient world in modern ferment Thubron covers over 7000 miles in
eight months enduring a near-miss with a drunk-driver incarceration in a Chinese cell and
undergoing root canal treatment without anaesthetic along the way. VINTAGE VOYAGES: A world of
journeys from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mind
