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Among the Russians by Colin Thubron
29.99 NZD
33.00 (9% off)
Category: Travel Writing
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 ly ...Show more
Distance by Colin Thubron
19.95 NZD
22.95 (13% off)
Category: Travel | Reading Level: very good
Edward, a young astronomer, has lost his memory. He recognizes some of the things in his cottage but can't recall anything about the woman called Naomi who has left him a message. Bit by bit he recovers his shattered past.
In Siberia by Colin Thubron
29.99 NZD
33.00 (9% off)
Category: Travel Writing
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. He journeyed by train, river and truck among the people most damaged by the breakup of the Soviet Union, travelling among Buddhists and animists, radical Christian s ...Show more
In Siberia by Colin Thubron
24.95 NZD
28.00 (10% off)
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good- very good
In the early 80s Colin Thubron wrote a bestselling book about his travels around the Soviet Union in an old Morris Minor. In the late 90s, post Soviet Union, he decided to explore Siberia - this time by truck, by bus, by boat. The result is a wonderfully readable and evocative account of an extraordinar ...Show more
Mirror to Damascus by Colin Thubron
29.99 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
Described by the author as simply 'a work of love', "Mirror to Damascus" provides an enthralling and fascinating history of Damascus from the Amorites of the Bible to the revolution of 1966, as well a being a charming and witty personal record of a city well-loved. In explaining how modern Damascus is r ...Show more
Shadow of the Silk Road by Colin Thubron
29.99 NZD
Category: Travel Writing | Reading Level: very good
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 an ...Show more
Shadow of the Silk Road by Colin Thubron
37.99 NZD
39.99 (5% off)
Category: Travel Writing | Reading Level: very good
There was never one Silk Road - but several. The route chosen by Colin Thubron passes through China, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan, Iran and Turkey, taking in the most sterile desert on earth (the Taklamakan) and the strife-torn mountain valleys of today's conflicts, as he travels from the tomb of ...Show more
Shadow of the Silk Road: (Vintage Voyages) by Colin Thubron
24.00 NZD
Category: Classic | Series: Vintage Voyages Ser.
VINTAGE VOYAGES- A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mindOn 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 pla ...Show more
The Amur River: Between Russia and China by Colin Thubron
29.99 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
A dramatic and ambitious new journey for our greatest travel writerColin Thubron, at 79, will travel the important but almost unknown Amur River - the tenth longest river in the world - that separates Russia from China in the Far East. The river rises in the mountains of north-east Mongolia (heartland o ...Show more
The Amur River: Between Russia and China by Colin Thubron
40.00 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
Follow our greatest travel writer (and rusty Mandarin speaker) along the far eastern river that separates Russia from China, the two great ex-Communist giants, taking in Mongolia, Siberia and the Sea of Japan A dramatic and ambitious new journey for our greatest travel writer Colin Thubron, at 79, will ...Show more
The Hills of Adonis by Colin Thubron
29.99 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
Ostensibly this is a book about Lebanon, finely written and deeply felt - not the Lebanon which a Beirut businessman would recognize, but a coastline of small historic ports and a littoral of beautiful mountains. In this country, the ruins of Phoenician, Greek and Roman are among the most impressive in ...Show more
To a Mountain in Tibet by Colin Thubron
37.99 NZD
42.99 (11% off)
Category: Travel Writing | Reading Level: very good
"In his new book, Colin Thubron travels to Tibet, and takes the pilgrimage route to Kailas, the most sacred of the world s mountains, holy to one fifth of the earth s people, but rarely visited by westerners. Buddhists and Hindus have ritually circled the mountain for centuries, but its steepest slopes ...Show more