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 ...

“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 ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Colin Thubron is an Author with one video in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 2006 Interview. Colin Thubron talked about his book, Shadow of the Silk Road, ...

Among the reasons the English writer Colin Thubron offers for dragging his sexagenarian body along 7,000 miles of the Silk Road is an urge to “understand something before it’s too late.” That goal, at ...

Freer Sackler Library copy has label, "ex libris Elizabeth B. Moynihan." A journey along the greatest land route on earth: out of the heart of China into the mountains of Central Asia, across northern ...