To a Mountain in Tibet

Author(s): Colin Thubron

Spirituality

"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."

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The doyen of travel writing at his elegiac and luminous best.

"A master class in travel writing... Thubron showcases here all the skills that have earned him the champion's belt as Britain's best living travel writer." --"Sunday Times" "Exquisitely written, To a Mountain in Tibet" "is not just a travelogue; it amounts to a heart-felt hosanna to the travails of walking... a matchless work of literary travel, [it] confirms Thubron as a wise and discriminate prospector in the affairs of man." --"Irish Times" "This is a bold and brave journey, an elegiac book by a master of prose at the height of his powers." --"Evening Standard" "Given that Thubron has shown himself over a lifetime's work to be our finest, is seems fitting that what is as much memoir as travel book should have as its setting the greatest spiritual pilgrimage the East has to offer." --Daily Telegraph"

Colin Thubron is an acknowledged master of travel writing, and the winner of many prizes and awards. His first writing was about the Middle East - Damascus, Lebanon and Cyprus. In 1982 he travelled into the Soviet Union in an ancient Morris Marina, pursued by the KGB, a journey he recorded in Among the Russians. From these early experiences developed his classic travel books: Behind the Wall (winner of the Hawthornden Prize and the Thomas Cook Travel Award), The Lost Heart of Asia, In Siberia (Prix Bouvier) and Shadow of the Silk Road (all available in Vintage). In 2010 Colin Thubron became President the Royal Society of Literature.

General Fields

  • : 9780099532644
  • : Random House UK
  • : VINTAGE ARROW - MASS MARKET
  • : 0.179
  • : March 2012
  • : 198mm X 129mm
  • : March 2012
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Colin Thubron
  • : Paperback
  • : English
  • : 915.1/5046
  • : map