by Colin Thubron · Ediciones Península · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788499422855
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In "The Shadow of the Silk Road", Colin Thubron, an experienced traveler, embarks on a journey along the legendary Silk Road. Forty years after his first visit, Thubron travels by bus, train, cart and camel over eleven thousand kilometers in eight months, from Xi'an, in the heart of China, to Antioch, passing through the mountains of Central Asia, northern Afghanistan and the plains of Iran.
In this book, Thubron seeks the trace of what was the largest land route in the world, that thanks to which not only silk arrived in the West, but also paper, gunpowder, the stirrup or the bridle, creating with his words a magnificent vision of an ancient world exposed to the agitation of the modern era.
Colin Gerald Dryden Thubron is a British travel writer and novelist. In 2008, The Times ranked him among the 50 greatest postwar British writers. He is a contributor to The New York Review of Books, The Times, The Times Literary Supplement and The New York Times. His books have been translated into more than twenty languages. Thubron was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2007 New Year Honours. He is a Fellow and, between 2009 and 2017, was President of the Royal Society of Literature.
