To a Mountain in Tibet
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Colin Thubron is the intrepid resourceful and immensely talented writer who has made a career out of going to out of the way places and then writing brilliantly about them.Jonathan Yardley Washington Post Book World Thanks to Thubron we encounter a world which in its beauty and awe exceeds our imagination." Ryszard Kapuscinski author of Shah of Shahs and Imperium New York Times bestselling author Colin Thubron returns with a moving intimate and exquisitely crafted travel memoir recounting his pilgrimage to the Hindu and Buddhist holy mountain of Kailaswhose peak represents the most sacred place on Earth to roughly a quarter the global population. With echoes of Peter Matthiessens The Snow Leopard Peter Hesslers Country Driving and Paul Theorouxs Ghost Train to the Eastern Star Thubrons follow up to his bestselling Shadow of the Silk Road will illuminate interest and inspire anyone interested in traveling the world or journeying into the soul.
