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Among the Russians by Colin Thubron
$25.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
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. A gifted writer and intrepid traveller, Thubron grapples with the complexities of Russian identity and relays his extraordinary journey in characteristically ly ...Show more
Emperor by Colin Thubron
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
The Emperor Constantine crosses the Alps at the head of a great army from the Rhineland in AD 312, and marches south to take Rome from the tyrant Maxentius. As he lays siege to the city of Verona, Constantine waits for the arrival of his wife, Fausta - his enemy's sister - whose cool detachment torments ...Show more
Journey into Cyprus by Colin Thubron
$23.00 AUD
Category: Travel
The people, their history and the beauty of an island on the brink of tragedy. This is the account of a unique journey - a six-hundred-mile trek on foot around Cyprus in the last year of the island's peace. Colin Thubron intertwines myth, history and personal anecdote in a quest from which the character ...Show more
Shadow of the Silk Road by Colin Thubron
$25.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
A journey along the greatest land route on earth, from the master of travel writing Colin Thubron On buses, donkey carts, trains, jeeps and camels, Colin Thubron traces the drifts of the first great trade route out of the heart of China into the mountains of Central Asia, across northern Afghanistan an ...Show more
The Amur River: Between Russia and China by Colin Thubron
$35.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
Follow our greatest travel writer (and rusty Mandarin speaker) along the far eastern river that separates Russia from China, the two great ex-Communist giants, taking in Mongolia, Siberia and the Sea of Japan A dramatic and ambitious new journey for our greatest travel writer Colin Thubron, at 79, will ...Show more
The Amur River: Between Russia and China by Colin Thubron
$25.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
A dramatic and ambitious new journey for our greatest travel writerColin Thubron, at 79, will travel the important but almost unknown Amur River - the tenth longest river in the world - that separates Russia from China in the Far East. The river rises in the mountains of north-east Mongolia (heartland o ...Show more
To a Mountain in Tibet by Colin Thubron
$20.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
"In his new book, Colin Thubron travels to Tibet, and takes the pilgrimage route to Kailas, the most sacred of the world s mountains, holy to one fifth of the earth s people, but rarely visited by westerners. Buddhists and Hindus have ritually circled the mountain for centuries, but its steepest slopes ...Show more
To a Mountain in Tibet by Colin Thubron
$29.95 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
"In his new book, Colin Thubron travels to Tibet, and takes the pilgrimage route to Kailas, the most sacred of the world s mountains, holy to one fifth of the earth s people, but rarely visited by westerners. Buddhists and Hindus have ritually circled the mountain for centuries, but its steepest slopes ...Show more
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