Au coeur de Bornéo

Shadow of the Silk Road records a journey along the greatest land route on earth. Out of the heart of China into the mountains of Central Asia, across northern Afghanistan and the plains of Iran and into Kurdish Turkey, Colin Thubron covers some seven thousand miles in eight months. Making his way by local bus, truck, car, donkey cart and camel, he travels from the tomb of the Yellow Emperor, the mythic progenitor of the Chinese people, to the ancient port of Antioch-in perhaps the most difficult and ambitious journey he has undertaken in forty years of travel. The Silk Road is a huge network of arteries splitting and converging across the breadth of Asia. To travel it is to trace the passage not only of trade and armies but also of ideas, religions and inventions. But alongside this rich and astonishing past, Shadow of the Silk Road is also about Asia today: a continent of upheaval. One of the trademarks of Colin Thubron's travel writing is the beauty of his prose; another is his gift for talking to people and getting them to talk to him. Shadow of the Silk Road encounters Islamic countries in many forms. It is about changes in China, transformed since the Cultural Revolution. It is about false nationalisms and the world's discontented margins, where the true boundaries are not political borders but the frontiers of tribe, ethnicity, language and religion. It is a magnificent and important account of an ancient world in modern ferment.

Shadow of the Silk Road

Chaque épisode du voyage de colin thubron dans les années quatre-vingt derrière la grande muraille de chine - des milliers de kilomètres à pied, en train, à bicyclette, depuis la frontière birmane jusqu'au désert de gobi, depuis la mer jaune jusqu'au toit du tibet - est littéralement illuminé par l'acuité de son regard, son génie du détail, son art de se glisser au plus secret des êtres.
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Derrière la grande muraille

Colin Thubron, reconnu outre-Manche comme le plus grand écrivain-voyageur vivant, part sur la route de la Soie. Onze mille kilomètres de la Chine à la Turquie, en passant par l'Ouzbékistan, l'Afghanistan, l'Iran. Huit mois de dangers, à dos de chameau ou à cheval, dans des trains et des bus bondés. Avec pour compagnie les vivants et les morts - simples gens, soldats, fantômes de Gengis Kahn. Dans cette oeuvre d'une intensité exceptionnelle, passé et présent s'échangent pour dessiner le visage de notre avenir.

L'ombre de la route de la soie

En plein Tibet, le mont Kailash, dont l'ascension est interdite, est révéré par un cinquième des habitants de la planète. Et depuis des siècles, les pèlerins marchent en cercles rituels autour du géant de pierre et de glace. En se joignant à eux, le grand écrivain-voyageur Colin Thubron nous offre le plus intime de ses livres : entre rencontres et anecdotes historiques, solitude et ouverture au monde, un périple spirituel d'une fascinante beauté.

Destination Kailash

Award-winning, bestselling novelist and travel writer Colin Thubron returns to fiction with his first novel in more than a decade, a searing, poetic masterwork of memory. A house is burning, threatening the existence of its six tenants-including a failed priest; a naturalist; a neurosurgeon; an invalid dreaming of his anxious boyhood; and their landlord, whose relationship to the tenants is both intimate and shadowy. At times, he shares their preoccupations and memories. He will also share their fate. In Night of Fire, the passions and obsessions in a dying house loom and shift, from those of the hallucinating drug addict in the basement to the landlord training his rooftop telescope on the night skies. As the novel progresses, the tenants' diverse stories take us through an African refugee camp, Greek Orthodox monasteries, and the cremation grounds of India. Haunting the edges of their lives are memories. Will these remembrances be consumed forever by the flames? Or can they survive in some form?Night of Fire is Colin Thubron's fictive masterpiece: a novel of exquisite beauty, philosophical depth, and lingering mystery that is a brilliant meditation on life itself.

Night of Fire - A Novel

Destination Kailash ; la montagne sacrée du Tibet

Having learned Mandarin, and travelling alone by foot, bicycle and train, Colin Thubron sets off on a 10,000 mile journey from Beijing to Tibet, starting from a tropical paradise near the Burmese border to the windswept wastes of the Gobi desert and the far end of the Great Wall. What Thubron reveals is an astonishing diversity, a land whose still unmeasured resources strain to meet an awesome demand, and an ancient people still reeling from the devastation of the Cultural Revolution.

Au coeur de Bornéo

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