Colin Thubron is an acclaimed travel writer and novelist. His first books were about the Middle East - Damascus, Lebanon and Cyprus. In 1982 he travelled by car into the Soviet Union, a journey he described in Among the Russians. From these early experiences developed his classic travel books: Behind the Wall: A Journey through China (winner of the Hawthornden Prize and the Thomas Cook Travel Award), The Lost Heart of Asia, In Siberia (Prix Bouvier), Shadow of the Silk Road and To a Mountain in Tibet. Among other honors, Colin Thubron has received the Ness award of the Royal Geographical Society and the Livingstone Memorial Medal of the Royal Society for Asian Affairs. In 2007 he was made CBE. He was elected President of the Royal Society of Literature from 2010 to 2017, and named an RSL Companion of Literature in 2020.
"Engrossing and affecting...poignant evocations of his mother and
sister, interwoven with his profound respect for the Tibetan
culture and landscape, make Thubron's memoir an utterly moving
read."--Publishers Weekly (starred
review)
"The journey is the reward, for both writer and reader, in this
rich, beautiful account of the landscape, people, culture, and
politics of Tibet."--Booklist (starred
review)
"A powerful and hauntingly elegiac hybrid of travelogue and
memoir"--Kirkus Reviews
"More meditative than his sweeping Shadow of the Silk Road.
. . . Walking with Thubron up the sacred mountain, strenuous as it
is at times, is well worth the effort."--Philadelphia
Inquirer
"Thubron has spent four decades writing in forceful and respectful
ways of foreign lands, and To a Mountain in Tibet is no
exception."--Wall Street Journal
"Thubron has, as always, thoroughly researched his subject, so his
descriptions of shadowy Buddhist shrines and wildly various
religious supplicants are interspersed with eloquent accounts of
Tibet's place in the imaginings of the West..."--New York Times
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