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A gripping read with fascinating political insight." (Sunday Times, London)"Elegant, elegiac and poignant...Thubron is an intrepid traveler, a shrewd observer and a lyrical guide... to the river, much of it along the border between these two powers at a time of rapid and tense reconfiguration of global geopolitics." (Washington Post)The most admired travel writer of our time?author of Shadow of the Silk Road and To a Mountain in Tibet?recounts...

Thubron on top form. Richly detailed, immaculately written and full of insights and encounters that bring a complex corner of the world to life' MICHAEL PALIN'A masterpiece' WILLIAM DALRYMPLE 'Unforgettable' ANTONY BEEVORAs read on BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week _______________A dramatic and ambitious new journey from our greatest travel writer.Rising in the Mongolian mountains and flowing through Siberia to the Pacific, the Amur River forms t...

The first novel from award-winning novelist and travel writer Colin Thubron in almost 15 years. A house is burning. Its six tenants include a failed priest, a naturalist, a neurosurgeon and an invalid dreaming of his anxious boyhood. Will their memories be consumed forever by the flames?

The most admired travel writer of our time—author of Shadow of the Silk Road and To a Mountain in Tibet—recounts an eye-opening, often perilous journey along a little known Far East Asian river that for over a thousand miles forms the highly contested border between Russia and China. The Amur River, the tenth longest in the world, speaks to Colin Thubron's desire to travel a remote but vital frontier land, from the river's headwaters in Mongo...

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...

Thubron on top form. Richly detailed, immaculately written and full of insights and encounters that bring a complex corner of the world to life' Michael PalinA dramatic and ambitious new journey for our greatest travel writerThe Amur River is almost unknown. Yet it is the tenth longest river in the world, rising in the Mongolian mountains and flowing through Siberia to the Pacific. For 1, 100 miles it forms the tense border between Russia and ...

Colin Thubron is the master of classic travel writing, and a previous winner of the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award. His first writing was about the Middle East - Damascus, Lebanon and Cyprus. In 1982 he travelled all over Russia in an ancient Morris Marina - pursued at every stage by the KGB. From these early experiences developed his travel books: Among the Russians, Behind the Wall, The Lost Heart of Asia and In Siberia (all available in Vint...

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Bestselling travel writer explores Siberia travelling by truck, bus and boat and compares the post Soviet Union to his previous visit in the early 80s where he travelled in an old Morris Minor. "This is a truly outstanding book" "Observer