Colin Thubron
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Travel writer and novelist; author of Among the Russians, In Siberia, Shadow of the Silk Road and To a Mountain in Tibet.
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The Road to Oxiana (opens rcmnd.app)
“it's full of wonderful descriptions. It's rather like what I was saying about building a mosaic about a country. He does that marvellously, in a description of landscape, then a menu, then a conversation, often…”
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The Way of the World (opens rcmnd.app)
“Bouvier never wrote another book comparable to this one. I loved it for its humanity, for its footloose feeling. He says somewhere, "You think you are making a trip, but soon it is making you – or unmaking you." And…”
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In Patagonia (opens rcmnd.app)
“This struck me as a rather different way of travel writing. It is very individual, with stark, short passages. There's very little of him in it. This is his walking journey in lower Patagonia, split between the…”
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The Road to Oxiana (opens rcmnd.app)