Colin Thubron

Colin Thubron undertakes a journey along the greatest land route on earth: the Silk Road....

""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...

Brought to you by Penguin. SHORTLISTED FOR THE WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021 A dramatic and ambitious new journey for our greatest travel writer The Amur River is almost unknown. Yet it is the tenth longest river in the world, rising in the Mongolian mountains and flowing through Siberia to...

This is the account of a journey to the holiest mountain on earth, the solitary peak of Kailas in Tibet, sacred to one-fifth of humankind....

Among the Russians is a marvellous account of a solitary journey by car from St. Petersburg and the Baltic States south to Georgia and Armenia....

Mount Kailas is the most sacred of the world’s mountains – holy to one fifth of humanity....

This is the account of a unique journey – a 600-mile trek on foot around Cyprus in the last year of the island's peace....

Described by the author as simply 'a work of love', Mirror to Damascus provides an enthralling and fascinating history of Damascus from the Amorites of the Bible to the revolution of 1966....

For four months and 500 miles, Colin Thubron walked the mountains of Lebanon, following tracks and rivers....

"It began with a spark." A house is burning. Its six tenants include a failed priest, a naturalist, a neurosurgeon and an invalid dreaming of his anxious boyhood....