To travel the Silk Road, the greatest land route on earth, is to trace the passage not only of trade and armies but also of ideas, religions, and inventions. Making his way by local bus, truck, car, donkey cart, and camel, Colin Thubron covered some seven thousand miles in eight months--out of the heart of China into the mountains of Central Asia, across northern Afghanistan and the plains of Iran into Kurdish Turkey--and explored an ancient world in modern ferment.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 07/01/2008
ISBN: 9780061231773
Pages: 400
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.30w x 0.90d
Review Citations: New York Times Book Review 07/27/2008 pg. 24