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The Lost Heart of Asia
by Colin Thubron
by Colin Thubron
Highly recommended. Difficult book to digest as many of the place names have changed or been changed. Thubron probably at his best, though in Central Asia he gets driven around rather than doing much of the driving himself in a battered old Morris Marina, which survived the old Soviet Union.
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Reading Progress
| 06/01/2011 | page 56 |
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15.0% | "Thubron has crossed from Turkmenistan into Uzbekistan by train. In my case, the Thames is the Great River! I'm enjoying this book so far and have grown used to some excessive use of metaphor in his writing. He is quite ruthless in his description of people who do not match his concept of beauty. Glad I didn't carry this on the train when the lights went out in a tunnel!" |
| 06/18/2011 | page 267 |
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70.0% | "Thubron is in the High Pamir on his travelling.He gives a very interesting picture of Central Asia after the fall of the Soviet Union, with very fluid frontiers in practice - though demarcated by Stalin.This book is quite a tough read, though it is well read.Thubron has eccentric views on culture and tends to stereotype many of the locals.Some insight into Uzbek, Kirghiz, Russian and Turkoman communities." |
