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Shadow of the Silk Road
Shadow of the Silk Road | Colin Thubron
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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 by local bus, truck, car, donkey cart and camel, he travels from the tomb of the Yellow Emperor, the mythic progenitor of the Chinese people, to the ancient port of Antiochin perhaps the most difficult and ambitious journey he has undertaken in forty years of travel. The Silk Road is a huge network of arteries splitting and converging across the breadth of Asia. To travel it is to trace the passage not only of trade and armies but also of ideas, religions and inventions. But alongside this rich and astonishing past, Shadow of the Silk Road is also about Asia today: a continent of upheaval. One of the trademarks of Colin Thubron's travel writing is the beauty of his prose; another is his gift for talking to people and getting them to talk to him. Shadow of the Silk Road encounters Islamic countries in many forms. It is about changes in China, transformed since the Cultural Revolution. It is about false nationalisms and the world's discontented margins, where the true boundaries are not political borders but the frontiers of tribe, ethnicity, language and religion. It is a magnificent and important account of an ancient world in modern ferment.
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Lillie
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Loved the reference to ghostly maps and how politics may change the shape of a country but what was before is still there in some shape or other. I‘ve read several books on the Silk Road and each one shows me how much more there is to learn. This one was published in 2006 and I‘d love to know what the differences are 13 years later.

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Lillie
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1. Shadow of the Silk Road by Colin Thubron
2. Here and Now and Then by Michael Chen
3. Spending one-on-one time with each kid, even if it was because I was chauffeuring them around 😉

#weekendreads

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nao
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#currentlyreading.. Shadow of the Silk Road by Colin Thubron.
The book is so beautiful it's like a journey taking you into the ancient roads from china to turkey.

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BookishMarginalia
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Hobbinol
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#shadows (photo on right is of me and my partner out for a walk last year and photo on left is of a #TBR.)

From the book's description: "Making his way by local bus, truck, car, donkey cart and camel, he travels from the tomb of the Yellow Emperor, the mythic progenitor of the Chinese people, to the ancient port of Antioch—in perhaps the most difficult and ambitious journey he has undertaken in forty years of travel."

LeahBergen I've never read him (and I like travel writing). I like the pic of you two! 💗 7y
Megabooks Great collage! 7y
saresmoore Very cool shadow picture. 7y
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