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Colin Thubron | Is Travel Writing Dead?
Colin Thubron
‘The death of travel – and of the travel book – has been predicted for almost a century.’
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Siberia
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‘The faintly clownish name of Omsk raises light-hearted expectations.’
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Mistakes
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‘In twenty or thirty years’ time, perhaps, a monument will be raised to the martyrs of Tiananmen Square, innocent harbingers of a more liberal age.’
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The Old Silk Route
Colin Thubron
‘If I had charted the most landlocked spot on earth, the arms of my compass would have intersected here, in China's far northwest.’
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A Family in Nanjing
Colin Thubron
‘The old people had prepared a banquet for me - an extravagant spread of cold meats and dumplings which we ate with the prestige television blaring, and nobody watching it.’
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Night In Vietnam
Colin Thubron
‘The tombstones glimmered in the grass. But he felt only relief. The dead, tonight, were more companionable than the living.’
