Bücher von Colin Thubron

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 Soviet Union--it encompasses terrain as diverse as the Kazakh steppes, the Karakum desert, and the Pamir mountains. In The Lost Heart of Asia, acclaimed, bestselling travel writer Colin Thubron carries readers on an extraordinary journey through this little understood, rarely visited, yet increasingly important corner of the world.

Nach dem Tod seiner Mutter pilgert der berühmte britische Schriftsteller Colin Thubron, ein welterfahrener, weiser alter Mann, nach Tibet. Es wird eine mühe volle Fußreise von Nepal über die tibetischen Pässe zu den magischen Seen unter dem heiligen Kailash, dem heiligsten Berg der Tibeter. Dort mischt er sich un ter die Pilger und nimmt an der rituellen Umrundung des Berges teil. Er spricht mit den Bergführern, mit Bewohnern abgelegener Dörfer, mit Mönchen in verfallenden Klöstern und bringt uns so die Seele der Tibeter näher. Ein tiefgrün diges Buch von großer Erzählkraft.

A journey along the greatest land route on earth, from the master of travel writing Colin ThubronOn 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. Covering over 7000 miles in eight months Thubron recounts extraordinary adventures - a near-miss with a drunk-driver, incarceration in a Chinese cell during the SARS epidemic, undergoing root canal treatment without anaesthetic in Iran - in inimitable prose. Shadow of the Silk Road is about Asia today; a magnificent account of an ancient world in modern ferment.'It is hard to think of a better travel book written this century' Times