Written in lovely prose, this book displays all the skills for which Thubron is renowned: scholarship, sensitivity, sensibility and a magical mix of fascinating experiences in the present and extraordinary evocations of the past.
Armed with only a notebook the book is illustrated only with maps but writing as vivid as this needs no illustrations..
Written in lovely prose, this book displays all the skills for which Thubron is renowned: scholarship, sensitivity, sensibility and a magical mix of fascinating experiences in the present and extraordinary evocations of the past