Colin Thubron

Colin Thubron undertakes a journey along the greatest land route on earth: the Silk Road....

Mount Kailas is the most sacred of the world’s mountains – holy to one fifth of humanity....

The Amur River is almost unknown. Yet it is the 10th longest river in the world, rising in the Mongolian mountains and flowing through Siberia to the Pacific. Colin Thubron takes a dramatic journey from the Amur's secret source to its giant mouth, covering almost 3,000 miles....

A few years it became possible, for this first time, for a foreigner to travel Siberia almost at will.....

For four months and 500 miles, Colin Thubron walked the mountains of Lebanon, following tracks and rivers....

This is the account of a unique journey – a 600-mile trek on foot around Cyprus in the last year of the island's peace....

Described by the author as simply 'a work of love', Mirror to Damascus provides an enthralling and fascinating history of Damascus from the Amorites of the Bible to the revolution of 1966....

"It began with a spark." A house is burning. Its six tenants include a failed priest, a naturalist, a neurosurgeon and an invalid dreaming of his anxious boyhood....

Among the Russians is a marvellous account of a solitary journey by car from St. Petersburg and the Baltic States south to Georgia and Armenia....