Amur river, Thubron, Colin

Автор: Colin Thubron
Название: Journey into Cyprus
ISBN: 0099570254 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099570257
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: Moving from Greek villages to Turkish towns, the author of Shadow of the Silk Road and Night of Fire provides a profound look into the people of Cyprus - from Orthodox monks to wedding parties to peasant families - against the landscape of a beautiful Mediterranean island on the eve of chaos and tragedy.

Автор: Thubron, Colin
Название: Among the Russians
ISBN: 0099459299 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099459293
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Описание: Among the Russians is a marvellous account of a solitary journey by car from St. Petersburg and the Baltic States south to Georgia and Armenia. A gifted writer and intrepid traveller, Thubron grapples with the complexities of Russian identity and relays his extraordinary journey in characteristically lyrical style.

Автор: Thubron, Colin
Название: In siberia
ISBN: 0099459264 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099459262
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Описание: This is the account of Thubron`s 15,000-mile journey through an astonishing country - one twelfth of the land surface of the whole earth.

Автор: Thubron, Colin
Название: Lost heart of asia
ISBN: 0099459280 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099459286
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Описание: Thubron travelled throughout Central Asia in the wake of the break-up of the Soviet Union and documented the widespread social upheaval in a region reeling from political change.

Автор: Thubron, Colin
Название: Distance
ISBN: 0099459272 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099459279
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Описание: Edward has lost his short term-memory. He hopes it will return when he sees the cottage in which he lives. He recognizes his overcoat on the hook, his books, the double bed. The mystery however, is Naomi. Edward has no recollection of who she is or why she has left him a love letter.

Автор: Thubron, Colin
Название: Behind the wall
ISBN: 0099459329 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099459323
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Описание: 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.

Автор: Thubron, Colin
Название: Shadow of the Silk Road
ISBN: 0099437228 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099437222
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Описание: Traces the drifts of the trade route out of the heart of China into the mountains of Central Asia, across northern Afghanistan and the plains of Iran into Kurdish Turkey. This book recounts the adventures of the author when travelling through the Silk Route.

Автор: Thubron, Colin
Название: Mirror to damascus
ISBN: 0099532298 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099532293
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Описание: Provides the history of Damascus from the Amorites of the Bible to the revolution of 1966. In explaining how modern Damascus is rooted in immemorial layers of culture and tradition, the author explores the historical, artistic, social and religious inheritance of the Damascenes.

Автор: Thubron Colin
Название: The Amur River: Between Russia and China
ISBN: 0063099683 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780063099685
Издательство: HarperCollins USA
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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 Amur River shows Thubron to be at the peak of his powers... as one of our greatest prose writers in any genre. But The Amur River is not just beautifully written: it is also a work of great importance...Thubron uses the Amur River as a metaphor to deal with the relationship of two countries now regarded by many as the greatest threat to the West in these dying days of the U.S. Imperium." (Daily Telegraph)

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 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 China. Simmering with the memory of land-grabs and unequal treaties, this is the most densely fortified frontier on earth.

In his eightieth year, Colin Thubron takes a dramatic journey from the Amur's secret source to its giant mouth, covering almost 3,000 miles. Harassed by injury and by arrest from the local police, he makes his way along both the Russian and Chinese shores, starting out by Mongolian horse, then hitchhiking, sailing on poacher's sloops or travelling the Trans-Siberian Express. Having revived his Russian and Mandarin, he talks to everyone he meets, from Chinese traders to Russian fishermen, from monks to indigenous peoples. By the time he reaches the river's desolate end, where Russia's nineteenth-century imperial dream petered out, a whole, pivotal world has come alive.

The Amur River is a shining masterpiece by the acknowledged laureate of travel writing, an urgent lesson in history and the culmination of an astonishing career.

Автор: Thubron Colin
Название: To a Mountain in Tibet
ISBN: 0099532646 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099532644
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: TOP TEN BESTSELLERMount Kailas is the most sacred of the world`s mountains - holy to one fifth of humanity.

Автор: Thubron Colin
Название: Hills of Adonis
ISBN: 009953228X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099532286
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Описание: For four months and five hundred miles the author walked the mountains of Lebanon, following tracks and rivers. His journey was not only a survey of a remarkable country, but a quest for the gods and divinities who held the secrets of death and rebirth in the land`s ancient cults. This title tells his story.