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Article: Shadow of the Silk Road.(Book review)
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- The Historian
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- June 22, 2009
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Shadow of the Silk Road. By Colin Thubron. (New York, N.Y.: HarperCollins, 2007. Pp. 363. $25.95.)
One of the most distinguished English travel writers, Colin Thubron, prepares himself very seriously for his journeys. Apart from wide reading in preparation for each trip, he learned Russian in the early 1980s for Among the Russians [1983] and continued to use the language when travelling in the newly independent Central Asian Republics [The Lost Heart of Asia, 1994], through Siberia [In Siberia, 1999], and while researching this book. He learned Chinese in preparation for Behind the Wall: A Journey Through China [1987] and found it still possible to converse in ...