Colin Thubron, Author . HarperCollins $25.95 (363p) ISBN 978-0-06-123172-8
In his latest absorbing travel epic, Thubron (In Siberia
; Mirror to Damascus
) follows the course—or at least the general drift—of the ancient network of trade routes that connected central China with the Mediterranean Coast, traversing
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Colin Thubron, Author HarperCollins $26 (304p) ISBN 978-0-06-019543-4
Many adventurers plunge into Siberia in search of untrammeled roads or unspoiled grandeur; only a handful bring with them a significant knowledge of the land's history, geology and wildlife. Even rarer are those who relay the experience as magically
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Colin Thubron, Author Atlantic Monthly Press $18.95 (306p) ISBN 978-0-87113-242-0
Like a classical Chinese scroll, this book follows a meandering, atmospheric course through China's landscape. Thubron ( Where Nights Are Longest: Travels by Car Through Western Russia ) rambles from exuberant urban centers like Canton and Shanghai...
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Colin Thubron, Author Harper Perennial $9.95 (306p) ISBN 978-0-06-097256-1
``Like a classical Chinese scroll, this book follows a meandering, atmospheric course through China's landscape,'' reported PW . As the author rambles from exuberant urban centers to farmlands, small towns and villages, ``he creates images that...
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Colin Thubron, Author HarperCollins Publishers $20 (208p) ISBN 978-0-06-018227-4
Thubron is a British travel writer ( Where Nights Are Longest ) and novelist ( A Cruel Madness ) whose sense of atmosphere and character may remind the reader of Graham Greene, without seeming at all derivative. This novel has a rather portentous...
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Colin Thubron, Harper, $24.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-06-176826-2
“The mountain path is the road of the dead,” writes Thubron (Shadow of the Silk Road) in this engrossing and affecting travel memoir that transcends the mere physical journey. In the wake of his mother’s death, Thubron sets off to Mount Kailas in...
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Colin Thubron. Harper, $26.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-249974-5
A Victorian house somewhere near the sea, ruined over time, is burning down. Chapter by chapter, room by smoky room, Thubron’s remarkable novel journeys into the lives of the house’s six occupants, mining their pasts and the places they’ve traveled...
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Colin Thubron, Author, C. Thubron, Author HarperCollins Publishers $23 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-018226-7
A 6000-mile journey takes Thubron (Where Nights are Longest) through Central Asia to the countries of the ancient Mongol empire of Tamerlane-Tashkent, Kazakh, Samarkand, Bukhara-more recently part of the Soviet Union. He supplies helpful historical...
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Colin Thubron, Author, C. Thubron, Author Harper Perennial $12 (210p) ISBN 978-0-06-092508-6
A young doctor encounters intense animosity between white colonists and black natives in the Australian outback. (Oct.)
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Colin Thubron. Harper, $27.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-06-309968-5
Novelist and travel writer Thubron (Night of Fire) evokes in this breathtaking account the beauty and harshness of the 1,100-mile-long Amur River that forms the border between Russia and China. Setting out on horseback from the river’s source in...
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