“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 ...

Improbably, perhaps, for a man of his sumptuous literary gifts, Colin Thubron is one hardy hombre. The most eloquent travel writer in Britain—there can be no argument after the death last year of Jan ...

This is the eulogy for writer and historian Gillian Tindall by travel writer Colin Thubron which he read at her memorial gathering held at Cecil Sharp House in Regent’s Park on Friday last. Gillian ...

The Amur River, writes Colin Thubron, is “one of the most formidable rivers on earth.” It is also one of the most mysterious and elusive: Estimates of its length vary wildly, as do ideas about the ...

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, ...

Under Jerusalem, by Andrew Lawler (Doubleday). Chronicling more than a century and a half of contentious digs around Jerusalem’s sacred sites, this history profiles the various “treasure hunters, ...

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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 ...

Improbably, perhaps, for a man of his sumptuous literary gifts, Colin Thubron is one hardy hombre. The most eloquent travel writer in Britain—there can be no argument after the death last year of Jan ...