Book description
The people, their history and the beauty of an island on the brink of tragedy.
This is the account of a unique journey - a six-hundred-mile trek on
foot around Cyprus in the last year of the island's peace. Colin
Thubron intertwines myth, history and personal anecdote in a quest
from which the characters and places, architecture and landscape all
spring vividly to the reader's eye.
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.
