| The Lost Heart of Asia Contributor(s): Thubron, Colin (Author) |
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ISBN: 0061577677 ISBN-13: 9780061577673 Publisher: Harper Perennial OUR PRICE: $16.19 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2008 Annotation: A travel book on the newly-emergent countries of central Asia which contain the magical cities of Bukhara and Samarkand, the Kazakh Steppes, the deserts of Karakum and the Pamir Mountains. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Travel | Asia - Central - Travel | Special Interest - Adventure - Travel | Asia - China |
| Dewey: 915.804 |
| Series: P.S. |
| Physical Information: 0.98" H x 5.98" W x 8.04" (0.66 lbs) 400 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Asian - Cultural Region - Middle East |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A land of enormous proportions, countless secrets, and incredible history, Central Asia was the heart of the great Mongol empire of Tamerlane and scene of Stalin's cruelest deportations. A remote and fascinating region in a constant state of transition--never more so than since the collapse of the Soviet Union--it encompasses terrain as diverse as the Kazakh steppes, the Karakum desert, and the Pamir mountains. In The Lost Heart of Asia, acclaimed, bestselling travel writer Colin Thubron carries readers on an extraordinary journey through this little understood, rarely visited, yet increasingly important corner of the world. |
Contributor Bio(s): Thubron, Colin: - Colin Thubron is the author of seven award-winning novels, including To the Last City, which was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize. He is an acknowledged master of travel writing, and his most recent titles include Behind the Wall, winner of the Hawthornden Prize and the Thomas Cook Travel Award; In Siberia, winner of the Prix Bouvier; the New York Times bestseller Shadow of the Silk Road; and To a Mountain in Tibet. In 2010 he became president of the Royal Society of Literature. |