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5 unusual facts about Colin Thubron


Caucasian Journey

Colin Thubron described the book as a classic, calling it "the record of an unrepeatable journey - adventurous, wry and robustly evocative."

Colin Thubron

Susan Bassnett: Interview with Colin Thubron, Studies in Travel Writing, No 3, 1999

Enets people

The town of Potapovo was visited in the late 1990s by the British travel writer, Colin Thubron who found the Entsi deculturated and demoralized, beset with problems of alcoholism.

Colin Thubron, In Siberia, HarperCollins, 1999, hardcover, 287 pages, ISBN 0-06-019543-6; British editions, Chatto & Williams or Sinclair Stevenson, October, 1999, hardcover, 320 pages, ISBN 1-85619-798-0; trade paperback, Penguin, September, 2000, 384 pages, ISBN 0-14-026860-X

In Siberia

In Siberia is a travel book by the English writer Colin Thubron.



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