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52 produkter
Passage
Inbunden, 2026
187 kr
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'This short, breathtakingly hypnotic novel held me in its grip until the very last word' Miranda Seymour'An exquisitely wrought novel' The GuardianThe story of a long-simmering love triangle set in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings, from the Booker-longlisted novelist and travel writer.‘She was standing …
Amur River
Between Russia and China
Häftad, 2022
151 kr
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In his eightieth year, Colin Thubron takes a dramatic and often treacherous journey from the Amur's secret source to its giant mouth, covering almost 3,000 miles.'Thubron on top form. Richly detailed, immaculately written and full of insights and encounters that bring a complex corner of the world …
Shadow of the Silk Road
Häftad, 2007
164 kr
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A journey along the greatest land route on earth, from the master of travel writing Colin ThubronOn 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 …
The Lost Heart of Asia
Häftad, 2008
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (2)
240 kr
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Falling
E-bok, 2012
102 kr
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From the crowd below a journalist watches, as a circus girl performs her strangely daring trapeze act, and is captivated by her beauty, outrageous costumes and exotic make-up in such a way that he finds himself falling helplessly in love with her. But it is from a prison cell that the journalist …
Shadow of the Silk Road
E-bok, 2009
96 kr
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Shadow of the Silk Road records a journey along the greatest land route on earth. Out of the heart of China into the mountains of Central Asia, across northern Afghanistan and the plains of Iran and into Kurdish Turkey, Colin Thubron covers some seven thousand miles in eight months. Making his way …
In Siberia
E-bok, 2009
102 kr
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As mysterious as its beautiful, as forbidding as it is populated with warm-hearted people, Syberia is a land few Westerners know, and even fewer will ever visit. Traveling alone, by train, boat, car, and on foot, Colin Thubron traversed this vast territory, talking to everyone he encountered about …
Among the Russians
E-bok, 2009
87 kr
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Here is a fresh perspective on the last tumultuous years of the Soviet Union and an exquisitely poetic travelogue.With a keen grasp of Russia''s history, a deep appreciation for its architecture and iconography, and an inexhaustible enthusiasm for its people and its culture, Colin Thubron is the …
To a Mountain in Tibet
E-bok, 2011
87 kr
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“Colin Thubron is the intrepid, resourceful and immensely talented writer who has made a career out of going to out of the way places and then writing brilliantly about them.”—Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World “Thanks to Thubron, we encounter a world which, in its beauty and awe, exceeds …
Night of Fire
A Novel
E-bok, 2017
79 kr
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Award-winning, bestselling novelist and travel writer Colin Thubron returns to fiction with his first novel in more than a decade, a searing, poetic masterwork of memory. A house is burning, threatening the existence of its six tenants—including a failed priest; a naturalist; a neurosurgeon; an …
The Amur River
Between Russia and China
Häftad, 2022
266 kr
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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 …
Amur River
Between Russia and China
E-bok, 2021
170 kr
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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 …
To The Last City
Häftad, 2003
179 kr
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To the Last City is set deep in the Peruvian Andes, where five ill-prepared travellers - men and women with different values, temperaments and motives - find themselves trekking through one of the most exacting and beautiful regions on earth. It is a journey which may temper or destroy them. They …
In Siberia
Häftad, 2008
162 kr
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'One of the finest books about contemporary Russia' ObserverThis 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 …
Lost Heart of Asia
Häftad, 2004
167 kr
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Discover Colin Thubron's journey through central asia in the wake of the fall of the iron curtain.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. Thubron is an …
Among the Russians
From the Baltic to the Caucasus
Häftad, 2004
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
167 kr
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'A magnificent achievement' Nikolai Tolstoy, The TimesAmong 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 …
Behind The Wall
A Journey Through China
Häftad, 2004
143 kr
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A powerful unforgettable journey through China with one of our greatest travel writers.'An achievement of great and lasting brilliance' Patrick Leigh FermorHaving learned Mandarin, and travelling alone by foot, bicycle and train, Colin Thubron set off on a 10,000 mile journey from Beijing to the …
Hills Of Adonis
Häftad, 2008
164 kr
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For four months and five hundred miles Colin Thubron 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.He visited …
Mirror To Damascus
50th Anniversary Edition
Häftad, 2008
167 kr
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A 50th anniversary edition of Colin Thubron's celebrated first book, a portrait of Syria's capital city, with a new introduction by the author.Described by the author as simply 'a work of love', Mirror to Damascus provides a rich and fascinating history of Damascus from the Amorites of the Bible to …
To a Mountain in Tibet
Häftad, 2012
155 kr
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**TOP TEN BESTSELLER**'I would rather read Colin Thubron than any other travel writer alive' John SimpsonMount Kailas is the most sacred of the world's mountains - holy to one fifth of humanity. Isolated beyond the central Himalayas, its summit has never been scaled, but for centuries the mountain …
In Siberia
Ljudbok, 2009
152 kr
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A few years it became possible, for this first time, for a foreigner to travel Siberia almost at will. This is the account of Thubron''s 15, 000-mile journey through this astonishing country - one twelfth of the land surface of the whole earth. He journeyed by train, river and truck among the …
To a Mountain in Tibet
E-bok, 2011
125 kr
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**TOP TEN BESTSELLER**'I would rather read Colin Thubron than any other travel writer alive' John SimpsonMount Kailas is the most sacred of the world's mountains - holy to one fifth of humanity. Isolated beyond the central Himalayas, its summit has never been scaled, but for centuries the mountain …
Mirror To Damascus
E-bok, 2011
122 kr
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A 50th anniversary edition of Colin Thubron's celebrated first book, a portrait of Syria's capital city, with a new introduction by the author.Described by the author as simply 'a work of love', Mirror to Damascus provides a rich and fascinating history of Damascus from the Amorites of the Bible to …
Hills Of Adonis
E-bok, 2011
122 kr
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For four months and five hundred miles Colin Thubron 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.He visited …
Emperor
E-bok, 2012
102 kr
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The Emperor Constantine crosses the Alps at the head of a great army from the Rhineland in AD 312, and marches south to take Rome from the tyrant Maxentius. As he lays siege to the city of Verona, Constantine waits for the arrival of his wife, Fausta - his enemy's sister - whose cool detachment …
