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Shadow of the Silk Road

Shadow of the Silk Road

by Colin Thubron

  • TRAVEL NARRATIVE
  • 2008
  • PAPER
  • 363 PAGES

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.  (CAS133, $15.99)

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