Journal Entry 1 by Cassiopaeia from Cardiff, Wales United Kingdom on Friday, February 03, 2012

From the cover
On buses, donkey carts, trains, jeeps and camels, Colin Thubron traces the drifts of the first great trade route out of the heart of China into the mountains of Central Asia, across northern Afghanistan and the plains of Iran into Kurdish Turkey.Covering over 7000 miles in eight months Thurbron recounts extraordinary adventures - a near-miss with a drunk-driver, incarceration in a Chinese cell during the SARS epidemic, undergoing root canal treatment without anaesthetic in Iran - in inimitable prose. Shadow of the Silk Road is about Asia today; a magnificent account of an ancient world in modern ferment.  

Journal Entry 2 by Cassiopaeia at Cardiff, Wales United Kingdom on Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Finished reading early this morning when someone making an early start woke me with car doors banging! This was the Book group read for Bookgrouponline.
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