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Colin Thubron

Forfatter af Shadow of the Silk Road

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Colin Thubron is the prizewinning, bestselling author of several travel books.

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Værker af Colin Thubron

Shadow of the Silk Road (2006) 1,152 eksemplarer
In Siberia (1999) 797 eksemplarer
The Lost Heart of Asia (1994) 684 eksemplarer
Fairies and Elves (Enchanted World) (1984) 557 eksemplarer
Among the Russians (1983) 461 eksemplarer
To a Mountain in Tibet (2011) 433 eksemplarer
The Great Cities: Jerusalem (1976) 189 eksemplarer
Journey into Cyprus (1975) 159 eksemplarer
The Venetians (1980) 157 eksemplarer
Mirror to Damascus (1967) 135 eksemplarer
The Ancient Mariners (1981) 131 eksemplarer
Night of Fire (2016) 123 eksemplarer
The Hills of Adonis (1968) 113 eksemplarer
To the Last City (2002) 83 eksemplarer
The Great Cities: Istanbul (1978) 63 eksemplarer
Falling (1989) 60 eksemplarer
Turning Back the Sun (1991) 51 eksemplarer
A Cruel Madness (1984) 47 eksemplarer
Distance (1996) 46 eksemplarer
Samarkand (1996) 45 eksemplarer
Emperor (1978) 43 eksemplarer
Entre árabes (2002) 8 eksemplarer
Century Travellers: Jerusalem (1969) 8 eksemplarer
The God in the Mountain (1977) 4 eksemplarer
Derrière la Grande Muraille (1991) 2 eksemplarer
Los antiguos marinos : I (1995) 1 eksemplar
Los antiguos marinos : II (1995) 1 eksemplar
Sena puta svile 1 eksemplar
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Associated Works

The Broken Road: From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos (2013) — Redaktør; Introduktion, nogle udgaver651 eksemplarer
Det lykkelige Arabien (1962) — Introduktion, nogle udgaver331 eksemplarer
Bad Trips (1991) — Bidragyder — 233 eksemplarer
Granta 64: Russia the Wild East (1998) — Bidragyder — 161 eksemplarer
Stalin's Nose: Across the Face of Europe (1992) — Forord, nogle udgaver156 eksemplarer
Granta 26: Travel (1989) — Bidragyder — 154 eksemplarer
Granta 28: Birthday: The Anniversary Issue (1989) — Bidragyder — 150 eksemplarer
Granta 20: In Trouble Again (1986) — Bidragyder — 131 eksemplarer
Granta 10: Travel Writing (1984) — Bidragyder — 88 eksemplarer
Oxtravels: Meetings with Remarkable Travel Writers (2011) — Bidragyder — 57 eksemplarer
Views from Abroad: The Spectator Book of Travel Writing (1988) — Forord — 40 eksemplarer
Naar huis (1994) — Bidragyder — 16 eksemplarer

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Juridisk navn
Thubron, Colin Gerald Dryden
Fødselsdato
1939-06-14
Køn
male
Nationalitet
England
UK
Fødested
London, England, UK
Bopæl
London, England, UK
Uddannelse
Eton College
Erhverv
novelist
travel writer
documentary filmmaker
Relationer
Grazia, Margreta de (wife)
Organisationer
Royal Society of Literature
Priser og hædersbevisninger
Order of the British Empire (Commander, 2006)
Royal Scottish Geographical Society Mungo Park Medal (2000)
Royal Society for Asian Affairs Lawrence of Arabia Medal (2001)
Fellow, Royal Society of Literature (1969)
Kort biografi
Colin Thubron was born in London on 14 June 1939. Educated at Eton College, he worked briefly for the publishers Hutchinson and as a freelance television film-maker in Turkey, Japan and Morocco. His first book, Mirror to Damascus, was published in 1967. He continued to write about the Middle East in The Hills of Adonis: A Quest in Lebanon (1968) and Jerusalem (1969).

Among the Russians (1983) describes a journey he made by car through western Russia during the Brezhnev era. Behind the Wall: A Journey through China (1987) won both the Hawthornden Prize and the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award. The Lost Heart of Asia (1994) narrates his travels through the newly-independent central Asian republics, exploring the effects of the collapse of the Soviet Union on the region. He returned to Russia for his most recent travel narrative, In Siberia (1999).
A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature since 1969, Colin Thubron is a regular contributor and reviewer for magazines and newspapers including The Times, the Times Literary Supplement and The Spectator. He lives in London. His latest travel books are Shadows of the Silk Road (2006), an account of his 7,000-mile journey along the route of the Silk Road; and To a Mountain in Tibet (2011), about his pilgrimage to sacred Mount Kailas.

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Jerusalem is one of twenty-five volumes from the Time-Life book series The Great Cities. Published in the 1970s this series looks at the history, culture, and character of various cities throughout the world. This volume portrays the tumult of cultures, nations, and religions which comprise the narrative of the city of Jerusalem in both the past and the present. Topics covered include King David, King Solomon and the Temple, the Wailing Wall, the influence of Greece and Rome, the destruction of the temple by the Romans, landmarks involving the life of Jesus Christ, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the Via Dolorosa, the various religious sects present in the city, the Dome of the Rock, the Crusades, the British Mandate period, the Six Day War, and the status of Jerusalem as of the 1970s. Author Colin Thubron seeks to explain the history of Jerusalem by walking the streets and meeting men; much of the narrative consists of conversations the author had with Jews, Muslims, and Christians. The photographs by Jay Maisel go a long way in enhancing the narrative.… (mere)
 
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RedeemedRareBooks | 2 andre anmeldelser | Mar 26, 2024 |
An interesting trip written by someone with a deep knowledge of the history they are travelling. Lots of great tidbits and personal observations but in the end, maybe a temple or ruin too many.
 
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BBrookes | 19 andre anmeldelser | Dec 5, 2023 |
A deep and moving, often eloquent, account of the author's effort to understand Jerusalem, one of the pivot points of the world, from ancient to modern. The author, Colin Thubron, is well known as an accomplished chronicler of places and times, and has a whole published book on Jerusalem, therefore this can be expected to be a deeply insightful and even authoritative work; his other volume in the Great Cities series, on another pivot point Constantinople (Istanbul), is equally evocative. His technique is to delve into the existing institutions and interact with the people involved on the ground, so one often gets what can be called a subaltern view; reinforced in this instance by the moody photographs so liberally provided. The most moving part of the account would appear to be the retracing of the path of Christ as he carries his cross to the place of his martyrdom; reflecting on this, it would appear that the first claim on this holiest of holy places should be with the Christians of the world, except that they themselves have apparently carved up the place of the crucifiction into a dozen separate fiefdoms among the warring sects. Now of course Israel hold this holy land. After having read the author's travel diaries across various countries and continents, one is awe-struck by the pluck and devotion he brings to bear on his subject, the amount of interaction he has been doing, and his intimate experiencing and deep knowledge of the human condition across the world.… (mere)
 
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Dilip-Kumar | 2 andre anmeldelser | Jul 27, 2023 |

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Værker
34
Also by
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Medlemmer
6,228
Popularitet
#3,937
Vurdering
3.8
Anmeldelser
107
ISBN
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