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Shadow of the Silk Road records a journey along the greatest land route on earth. 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. Making his way by local bus, truck, car, donkey cart and camel, he travels from the tomb of the Yellow Emperor, the mythic progenitor of the Chinese people, to the ancient port of Antioch—in perhaps the most difficult and ambitious journey he has undertaken in forty years of travel. The Silk Road is a huge network of arteries splitting and converging across the breadth of Asia. To travel it is to trace the passage not only of trade and armies but also of ideas, religions and inventions. But alongside this rich and astonishing past, Shadow of the Silk Road is also about Asia today: a continent of upheaval. One of the trademarks of Colin Thubron's travel writing is the beauty of his prose; another is his gift for talking to people and getting them to talk to him. Shadow of the Silk Road encounters Islamic countries in many forms. It is about changes in China, transformed since the Cultural Revolution. It is about false nationalisms and the world's discontented margins, where the true boundaries are not political borders but the frontiers of tribe, ethnicity, language and religion. It is a magnificent and important account of an ancient world in modern ferment.
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Wickedly dishonest "travel fiction". The persona of the traveler is a pathetic windbag of received opinions, who unfortunately happened to be traveling in --and, worse, writing about--- some of the most fascinating parts of the world. Thubron's disingenuit...
評分英國遊記作傢柯林·休布倫在《絲綢之路的影子》裏,記述瞭自己重走絲綢之路的經曆,在書中記載瞭這條昔日聯結瞭東西方的貿易通道在歲月長河中遺留下的影子。從中國的西安一直到土耳其的海港城市安提俄剋,休布倫靠著搭順風車等辦法走完瞭7000英裏的路程,他由一開始“短暫的睏...
評分Wickedly dishonest "travel fiction". The persona of the traveler is a pathetic windbag of received opinions, who unfortunately happened to be traveling in --and, worse, writing about--- some of the most fascinating parts of the world. Thubron's disingenuit...
評分英國遊記作傢柯林·休布倫在《絲綢之路的影子》裏,記述瞭自己重走絲綢之路的經曆,在書中記載瞭這條昔日聯結瞭東西方的貿易通道在歲月長河中遺留下的影子。從中國的西安一直到土耳其的海港城市安提俄剋,休布倫靠著搭順風車等辦法走完瞭7000英裏的路程,他由一開始“短暫的睏...
評分Wickedly dishonest "travel fiction". The persona of the traveler is a pathetic windbag of received opinions, who unfortunately happened to be traveling in --and, worse, writing about--- some of the most fascinating parts of the world. Thubron's disingenuit...
圖書標籤: 遊記 絲綢之路 ColinThubron 散文 曆史 travel 英國 必讀
絲綢之路已成為昔日舊影。
評分a book for old age...
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評分Couldn’t finish
評分a book for old age...
Shadow of the Silk Road 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載