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Colin Thubron

Colin Thubron’s books include In Siberia, Shadow of the Silk Road, and the novel Night of Fire. His most recent book is The Amur River: Between Russia and China. (June 2025)

The Haven of Wilderness

The Artificiality of Nations

Hard Solaces

Remainders

Pleasure Domes and Postal Routes

The Companionship of Nature

Escape from Fortress Crete

Cartographers of Stone and Air

Our Guide to the Underworld

Reveling in Discomfort

The Yangtze Valley and Beyond: An Account of Journeys in China, Chiefly in the Province of Sze Chuan and among the Man-tze of the Somo Territory

by Mrs. J.F. Bishop (Isabella L. Bird), with an introduction by Dervla Murphy

July 19, 2018 issue

A River Runs Through It

Black Dragon River: A Journey Down the Amur River at the Borderlands of Empires

by Dominic Ziegler

October 26, 2017 issue

Lost in Arabia

Remembering Bob Silvers

Pamuk: Under the Spell of Istanbul

Mesmerized by Germany

Roads to Berlin: Detours and Riddles in the Lands and History of Germany

by Cees Nooteboom, translated from the Dutch by Laura Watkinson, with photographs by Simone Sassen

December 19, 2013 issue

When the Ruins Were New

Patrick Leigh Fermor (1915–2011)

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