To a Mountain in Tibet - Hardcover

Thubron, Colin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0701183799 ISBN 13: 9780701183790

Publisher: Chatto & Windus, 2011

Synopsis

The master of travel writing at his most elegiac and luminous best tackling an arduous Tibetan mountain and his mother's recent death.

In his new book, Colin Thubron travels to Tibet, and takes the pilgrimage route to Kailas, the most sacred of the world's mountains, holy to one fifth of the earth's people, but rarely visited by westerners. Buddhists and Hindus have ritually circled the mountain for centuries, but its steepest slopes are sacrosanct and no one has ever climbed to the summit. Thubron made the expedition shortly after his mother's death, and his hike through a challenging terrain of rocks, lakes and remote monasteries is perhaps one of his most personal and poetic books to date.


From the Trade Paperback edition.

About this title

About the Author

COLIN THUBRON is the master of classic travel writing, and a previous winner of the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award. His first writing was about the Middle East -- Damascus, Lebanon and Cyprus. In 1982 he travelled all over Russia in an ancient Morris Marina -- pursued at every stage by the KGB. From these early experiences developed his travel books: Among the Russians, Behind the Wall, The Lost Heart of Asia and In Siberia. So great is his dedication to travelling in Russia and China, that he has learned Russian and Mandarin in order to be able to speak to ordinary people en route. In 2010 Colin Thubron took over the presidency of the Royal Society of Literature.


From the Trade Paperback edition.

Edition details

• Publisher: Chatto & Windus
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0701183799
• ISBN 13: 9780701183790
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240