The Lost Heart of Asia

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'This book is a masterpiece of travel-writing, and will take its place on the shelves between Eastern Approaches and The Road to Oxiana. In plain English, it is a classic' - Róbert Carver in the New Statesman & Society 'Thubron's journey takes him through a spectacular, talismanic geography of desert and mountain ... a whole glittering, terrible and romantic history lies abandoned along with thoughts of more prosperous times ... Thubron's grasp of this fantastical past is impeccable, and he weaves its mysteries with modern images into a dazzling embroidery' - Rachel Cusk in The Times 'Thubron writes with an originality and vividness that few contemporary authors can match' - William Dalrymple in the Independent 'Magnificent ... He is an extraordifiary voyager, with detailed knowledge of every layer of history of the area ... but he wears his knowledge as casually as his rucksack, as he searches for lost cities, mosques, tombs of which he knows the whereabouts far better than any... Tovább

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'This book is a masterpiece of travel-writing, and will take its place on the shelves between Eastern Approaches and The Road to Oxiana. In plain English, it is a classic' - Róbert Carver in the New Statesman & Society 'Thubron's journey takes him through a spectacular, talismanic geography of desert and mountain ... a whole glittering, terrible and romantic history lies abandoned along with thoughts of more prosperous times ... Thubron's grasp of this fantastical past is impeccable, and he weaves its mysteries with modern images into a dazzling embroidery' - Rachel Cusk in The Times 'Thubron writes with an originality and vividness that few contemporary authors can match' - William Dalrymple in the Independent 'Magnificent ... He is an extraordifiary voyager, with detailed knowledge of every layer of history of the area ... but he wears his knowledge as casually as his rucksack, as he searches for lost cities, mosques, tombs of which he knows the whereabouts far better than any native' - William Shawcross in the Literary Reuiew 'Although the heroic age of travellers in Central Asia has gone for ever, this book will still deserve, for the intense beauty of its prose and the observant clarity of its vision, to stand alongside the best of those classic travel writings of the past' - Noel Malcolm in the Sunday Telegraph Vissza