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Shadow of the Silk Road
   3.67 avg rating — 800 ratings
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1989
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In Siberia
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1999
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To a Mountain in Tibet
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2011
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The Lost Heart of Asia
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Among the Russians
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1983
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Behind the Wall: A Journey Through China
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1987
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Where Nights Are Longest: Travels by Car Through Western Russia
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1984
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A Cruel Madness
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Mirror To Damascus
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1967
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The Hills of Adonis: A Journey in Lebanon
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“Just as the roads at Moscow's heart flow out in concentric ripples from the Kremlin, so this tension too seems to radiate from those secret and formidable walls, lapping outward to the suburbs and to the farthest confines of the Soviet Union itself, in ever-weakening but pervasive rings.”
― Colin Thubron
― Colin Thubron
“Once, at the dreaming dawn of history -- before the world was categorized and regulated by mortal minds, before solid boundaries formed between the mortal world and any other -- fairies roamed freely among men, and the two races knew each other well. Yet the knowing was never straightforward, and the adventures that mortals and fairies had together were fraught with uncertainty, for fairies and humans were alien to each other.”
― Colin Thubron, Fairies and Elves
― Colin Thubron, Fairies and Elves
“As the track bends north-east, the ethereal sandstone disappears. The slopes turn black with granite, and the mountain's lower ridges break into unstable spikes and revetments. Their ribs are slashed in chiaroscuro, and their last outcrops pour towards the valley in the fluid, anthropomorphic shapes that pilgrims love. The spine and haunches of a massive stone beast, gazing at Kailas, are hailed as the Nandi bull, holy to Shiva; another rock has become the votive cake of Padmasambhava.”
― Colin Thubron, To a Mountain in Tibet
― Colin Thubron, To a Mountain in Tibet
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