SHADOW OF THE SILK ROAD
Book ID/图书代码： 00200006B09370
English Summary/英文概要： To travel the Silk Road, the greatest land route on earth, is to trace the passage not only of trade and armies but also of ideas, religions, and inventions. Making his way by local bus, truck, car, donkey cart, and camel, Colin Thubron covered some seven thousand miles in eight months—out of the heart of China into the mountains of Central Asia, across northern Afghanistan and the plains of Iran into Kurdish Turkey—and explored an ancient world in modern ferment.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 萨布伦7000英里的长征从中国开始，沿着古丝绸之路到达土耳其。萨布伦为了抄近路，他冒着生命危险进入了塔利班势力控制的阿富汗。游记写作有周游列国的浪漫，对昔日英雄故事的亿思，一路诗意相伴。
同时，作家也在用自己的眼睛独立地观察，他看见了苏联式意识形态的终结，也看到了宗教狂热的兴起。在横穿中亚的旅程中，他看到斯大林曾经强行关闭的两万六千座清真寺，现在如雨后春笋一般重新崛起。而曾经记载着亚历山大帝和成吉思汗无限辉煌的乌兹别克第二大城撒马尔罕(Samarkand)已经被西方廉价的色情光碟和贪污所取代。独行天下，虽然与当地的人民有简单的沟通，但那孤独的震颤，还是一种难得的心灵的淘洗。
Awards/获奖情况：“With its elegiac tone, SHADOW OF THE SILK ROAD is moving in a way that’s rare in travel literature, sidestepping nostalgia even as it notes its pull. Thubron goes to places most other sojourners can’t--because they’re not so much geographic locations as states of mind, formed from the lifelong accretion of intriguing facts, mistaken hopes, mysteries. Here on civilization’s oldest and longest road, which isn’t quite a road, he has found his way into that kingdom and brought it into focus for us.”---Lorraine Adams, New York Times Book Review
“Moving in a way that’s rare in travel literature...Thubron goes to places most other sojourners can’t.”---Lorraine Adams, New York Times Book Review
“An intrepid, resourceful and immensely talented writer…An uncommonly interesting and rewarding book…All in all, a splendid book.”---Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World
“[Thubron is] intrepid, resourceful . . . and immensely talented . . . a splendid book.”---Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World
“A sublime travel writer in the tradition of Freya Stark and Patrick Leigh Fermor…[He captures] the most evocative details in the landscapes and in the lives of ordinary people with lyricism, compassion, and wit.”---Boston Globe
“A sublime travel writer . . . [Thubron captures] the . . . lives of ordinary people with lyricism, compassion, and wit.”---Boston Globe
“Thubron has done it all, with sparkling grace, as he does in SHADOW OF THE SILK ROAD…He is a brilliant brooder, artful in his melancholy…His is an experience of transformation, fittingly, for if the Silk Road was anything, it was an agent of kaleidoscopic transformation.” ---San Francisco Chronicle
“Thubron has done it all, with sparkling grace . . . He is a brilliant brooder, artful in his melancholy.”---San Francisco Chronicle
About the Author/作者介绍： An award-winning novelist and travel writer, Colin Thubron’s books include Among the Russians, In Siberia, and the New York Times bestseller Shadow of the Silk Road. He lives in London.
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