Shadow of the Silk Road Book Thubron Colin. The Silk Road is a huge network of arteries splitting and converging across the breadth of Asia. Out of the heart of China into the mountains of Central Asia across Northern Afghanistan and the plains of Iran into Kurdish Turkey Colin Thubron.
Out of the heart of China into the mountains of Central Asia across northern Afghanistan and the plains of Iran and into Kurdish Turkey Colin Thubron covers some seven thousand miles in eight months. To follow the Silk Road is to follow a ghost. Publishers Summary. This skill it seems travelled haltingly west over the Silk Road reaching Europe via Persia and Mongol Russia heralded by Chinese paper money and playingcards. To follow the Silk Road is to follow a ghost. There was never one Silk Road but several. Thubron did just that and Shadow of the Silk Road is the story of that adventure. The author British travel writer Colin Thubron traveled from Xian an ancient capital of China to Antioch in Turkey along the silk road blending broad historical knowledge with acute observations of contemporary life. 5 out of 5 stars. Shadow of the Silk Road Unabridged .