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Shadow of the Silk Road
by Colin Thubron
- TRAVEL NARRATIVE
- 2008
- PAPER
- 363 PAGES
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The author of a string of remarkable travel accounts, Thubron -- now in his sixties and as intrepid as ever -- recounts an epic, 7,000-mile trek across the Silk Road from Xi'an to Eastern Turkey in this lyrical, erudite portrait, encompassing Dunhuang, Samarkand and Bukhara, Afghanistan and Iran.
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