Behind The Wall
A Journey Through China
$24.99
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
1 June 2004
Summary
Winner of the Hawthornden Prize and the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award.
A powerful unforgettable journey through China with one of our greatest travel writers.
‘An achievement of great and lasting brilliance’ Patrick Leigh Fermor
Having learned Mandarin, and travelling alone by foot, bicycle and train, Colin Thubron set off on a 10,000 mile journey from Beijing to the borders of Burma. He travelled through the wind-swept wastes of the Gobi desert and finished at the far…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099459323 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099459329 |
| Author: | Colin Thubron |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 1 June 2004 |
| Weight: | 230g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 20mm |
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Critics Review
“An intrepid traveller who also writes beautifully, with wit and erudition.” Spectator
An achievement of great and lasting brilliance – Patrick Leigh FermorThis transcendentally gifted writer is, of course, one of the two or three best living travel writers * Independent *A travel book which tells us more about this strange, sometimes terrible region and its people than a library of more pretentious works * Literary Review *An intrepid traveller, who also writes beautifully, with wit and erudition… The result is a rare first-hand account of a country seen through the eyes of one who has experienced what he describes and who is in a position to understand what he sees… He penetrates where most would believe it is impossible for a foreigner to go * Spectator *
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- The Lost Heart of Asia, In Siberia (Prix Bouvier), Shadow of the Silk Road and, more recently, Journey Into Cyprus. In 2010 Colin Thubron became President the Royal Society of Literature.
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