A journey along the greatest land route on earth, from the master of travel writing Colin Thubron

On buses, donkey carts, trains, jeeps and camels, Colin Thubron traces the drifts of the first great 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. Covering over 7000 miles in eight months Thubron recounts extraordinary adventures - a near-miss with a drunk-driver, incarceration in a Chinese cell during the SARS epidemic, undergoing root canal treatment without anaesthetic in Iran - in inimitable prose. Shadow of the Silk Road is about Asia today; a magnificent account of an ancient world in modern ferment.

'It is hard to think of a better travel book written this century' Times

'Thubron is the pre-eminent travel writer of his generation' Sunday Telegraph

• We started tracking this book on June 10, 2012.
• This book was £5.84 when we started tracking it.
• The price of this book has changed 79 times in the past 4,754 days.
• The current price of this book is £0.99 last checked 8 hours ago.
• The lowest price to date was £0.99 last reached on June 1, 2025.
• This book has been £0.99 3 times since we started tracking it.
• The highest price to date was £7.99 last reached on February 5, 2024.
• This book has been £7.99 8 times since we started tracking it.
• This book is currently at its lowest price since we started tracking it.

• HistoryAsia
• Travel & TourismTravel Writing

• Publication Date: February 29, 2012
• Text-to-Speech: Disabled
• Lending: Disabled
• Print Length: 386 Pages
• File Size: 17 KB