Summary
Colin Thubron’s voice is unique- once heard, difficult to forget’ Anita Brookner
To the Last City is set deep in the Peruvian Andes, where five ill-prepared travellers - men and women with different values, temperaments and motives - find themselves trekking through one of the most exacting and beautiful regions on earth.
It is a journey which may temper or destroy them. They confront not only their relationships with one another, but also the enigmas of the country’s past, th…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099437239 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099437236 |
| Author: | Colin Thubron |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 176 |
| Release Date: | 15 June 2003 |
| Weight: | 127g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 12mm |
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“One of our most compelling contemporary novelists.” Independent From the Hardcover edition.
One of our most compelling contemporary novelists * Independent *
Colin Thubron’s voice is unique: once heard, difficult to forget – Anita Brookner
A tense, precarious achievement, brilliantly evoking a dangerous journey * The Times *
It is the sharpness of the topography that brings this book to life, the handling of the characters is equally impressive… Thubron has captured, with a vividness that few could match…the charms of a journey into the unknown * Sunday Telegraph *
An intriguing and worthwhile success * Times Literary Supplement *
Colin Thubron seems to be a writer undaunted by immensity, either of place or plot… To the Last City is haunting and passionate and, above all, magnificently fearless * Observer *
About The Author
Colin Thubron
Colin Thubron is an acknowledged master of travel writing, and the winner of many prizes and awards. His first writing was about the Middle East - Damascus, Lebanon and Cyprus. In 1982 he travelled into the Soviet Union in an ancient Morris Marina, pursued by the KGB, a journey he recorded in Among the Russians. From these early experiences developed his classic travel books- Behind the Wall (winner of the Hawthornden Prize and the Thomas Cook Travel Award), The Lost Heart of Asia, In Siberia (Prix Bouvier) and Shadow of the Silk Road. In 2010 Colin Thubron became President of the Royal Society of Literature.
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