En el Himalaya tibetano se levanta majestuoso el monte Kailash, un gigante de una enorme belleza natural que observa cómo en su órbita nacen algunos de los ríos más largos de Asia, como el Indo y el Brahmaputra....

Desde las primeras páginas de esta novela se nos desvela el final que aguarda a sus protagonistas, siete inquilinos de un mismo edificio de apartamentos—el casero, un pastor anglicano, un neurocirujano,...

El viajero experimentado emprende la ruta. Cuarenta años atrás visitó algunos de los lugares, así que ciertos tramos del camino los conoce ya. Sí, le resultan familiares pero a la vez distintos, pues...

"There is no travel writer working today in English who possesses such a remarkable combination of the observant and the lyric gifts--the most poetic of us all."  — Jan MorrisThe first book in Thubron's...

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...

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...

"A gripping read with fascinating political insight." (Sunday Times, London)"Elegant, elegiac and poignant...Thubron is an intrepid traveler, a shrewd observer and a lyrical guide... to the river, much...

"A superb account of a pilgrimage. . . . Characteristically beautiful, though uncharacteristically haunted." —Pico Iyer, New York Review of Books"Thubron walks for the dead and writes for the living,...

As mysterious as its beautiful, as forbidding as it is populated with warm-hearted people, Syberia is a land few Westerners know, and even fewer will ever visit. Traveling alone, by train, boat, car,...