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    Colin Gerald Dryden Thubron CBE FRSL FRAS (born 14 June 1939) is a British travel writer and novelist. In 2008, The Times ranked him among the 50 greatest...
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  • soldier Colin Thubron (born 1939), British writer Harry Thubron (1915–1985) English artist and art teacher This page lists people with the surname Thubron. If...
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  • Colin Thubron. It is an account of his travel from Mongolia to Russia to China, mostly along the Amur River. The book recounts author Colin Thubron's...
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  • Broken Road: From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos (ed. Artemis Cooper and Colin Thubron) (John Murray, 2013; ISBN 978-1-848547537) Cunningham, John (9 December...
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    President Bernardine Evaristo Presidents Emeriti Sir Michael Holroyd Colin Thubron Marina Warner Chair of Council Daljit Nagra Vice-Chair of Council Irenosen...
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  • To a Mountain in Tibet is a nonfiction book by British travel writer Colin Thubron describing his journey to Mount Kailash through a remote region of Nepal...
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  • influenced a generation of British travel writers, including Bruce Chatwin, Colin Thubron, Philip Marsden, Nicholas Crane and Rory Stewart. Leigh Fermor was noted...
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  • is a 1999 travel book by the English writer Colin Thubron. Published in 1999, the book depicts Thubron's journeys in Siberia in the late 1990s, after...
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  • edited and introduced by his biographer Artemis Cooper and travel writer Colin Thubron, narrates almost all of the final section of the author's journey on...
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    first solo circumnavigation of Lake Baikal. Amazon ISBN 978-3737561020 Colin Thubron (2000), In Siberia, ISBN 978-0060953737, Harper Perennial. Leonid Borodin...
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  • columnist, McFadyean interviewed veteran British travel writer and novelist Colin Thubron, Lindisfarne island resident Reverend Canon Kate Tristram, British actor...
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  • an Imitation Viking Zadie Smith The Autograph Man Hamish Hamilton Colin Thubron To the Last City Chatto & Windus 2003 Winner DBC Pierre Vernon God Little...
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    The Broken Road. The final volume of his original trilogy, edited by Colin Thubron and Artemis Cooper, has an excellent descriptive tour around each of...
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    https://web.archive.org/web/20040217225839/http://www.redbook.ee/english.html Colin Thubron, In Siberia, HarperCollins, 1999, hardcover, 287 pages, ISBN 0-06-019543-6;...
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  • is buried in Komorovskoe Cemetery [ru] near the grave of his wife. Colin Thubron summarized his career as follows: For his earlier books, there are those...
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    luxury trade flooding to their doors again. But this remained a dream. — Colin Thubron, Seafarers: The Venetians (1980), p. 102 Despite entering negotiations...
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  • in Croatia’s Hinterland Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year 2022 Colin Thubron, The Amur River:Between Russia and China Polly Barton, Fifty Sounds...
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    New Zealand. His son was a Brigadier by the name Gerald Thubron OBE and his grandson Colin Thubron, a writer. The 1908 Olympic Games: results for all competitors...
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  •  499. "Sculptors". O'zbekiston haykaltaroshligi.[permanent dead link] Colin Thubron, The Lost Heart of Asia. Heinemann, 1994 The Moscow Times, Volume 2...
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    personally criticized the Russian tsarist government for its brutality. Colin Thubron, The Amur River: Between Russia and China, Random House, 2021 ISBN 978-1-473-56591-3...
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  • customs are observed because of its relative isolation.: 2  In 2019, Colin Thubron found one man alone in Dawujia(zi) in Aihui District of Heihe Prefecture...
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  • Ashis Nandy, Basharat Peer, Charles Nicoll, Christophe Jaffrelot, Colin Thubron, Daniyal Mueenuddin, Geetanjali Shree, Mukul Kesavan, Musharraf Ali...
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    world with writers such as Bruce Chatwin, Paul Theroux, Jonathan Raban, Colin Thubron, and others. While travel writing previously had mainly attracted interest...
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    Bourget 49 Korean roof tile Korea AD 700–800 BBC BM Jane Portal, Choe Kwang Shik 50 Silk princess painting China AD 600–800 BBC BM Yo Yo Ma, Colin Thubron...
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  • (1939–2018) Grey Gowrie (born 1939), politician and arts administrator Colin Thubron (born 1939), travel writer and novelist Simon Cairns, 6th Earl Cairns...
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    Archived 27 December 2006 at the Wayback MachineTarquin Hall "Review: Colin Thubron, Shadow of the Silk Road, London: Chatto & Windus, 2006, New Statesman...
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  • Expedition to Arabia 1761-1767," Copenhagen 2016. The Arabian Journey 1761-1767 Article (in Danish) Lost In Arabia by Colin Thubron, New York Review of Books...
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  • understand and build bridges across the colonial divide," he writes "[A]s Colin Thubron has pointed out, ‘To define the genre [of travel writing] as an act...
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    female—president of the Royal Society of Literature (RSL), succeeding Colin Thubron in the post. On Warner's retirement from the role at the end of 2021...
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    Nabokov and Happiness". Lila Azam Zanganeh (Author), W.W. Norton. "Colin Thubron and Tom Phillips join Lola Young on 2017 Man Booker jury". the Guardian...
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