Matokeo ya Utafutaji

The history of Venice, from the 7th century through the 17th.... More

A worker in a mental hospital meets his old girlfriend inside, but he is not sure if she is on the staff or if she is a patient. Their reunion is haunted and from the memory of their past affair there unfolds a labyrinth which darkens from romantic obsession to feelings deeper and more disturbing.... More

Renowned travel writer Colin Thubron turns his hand to fiction in "The God in the Mountain". A story about a young man's journey of self discovery.... More

Award-winning, bestselling novelist and travel writer Colin Thubron returns to fiction with his first novel in more than a decade, a searing, poetic masterwork of memory.A house is burning, threatening the existence of its six tenants—including a failed priest; a naturalist; a neurosurgeon; an inval... More

Shadow of the Silk Road records a journey along the greatest land route on earth. Out of the heart of China into the mountains of Central Asia, across northern Afghanistan and the plains of Iran and into Kurdish Turkey, Colin Thubron covers some seven thousand miles in eight months. Making his way ... More

A land of enormous proportions, countless secrets, and incredible history, Central Asia was the heart of the great Mongol empire of Tamerlane and scene of Stalin's cruelest deportations. A remote and fascinating region in a constant state of transition-never more so than since the collapse of the S... More

The most admired travel writer of our time—author of Shadow of the Silk Road and To a Mountain in Tibet—recounts an eye-opening, often perilous journey along a little known Far East Asian river that for over a thousand miles forms the highly contested border between Russia and China.The Amur River i... More

This is the account of a journey to the holiest mountain on earth, the solitary peak of Kailas in Tibet, sacred to one-fifth of humankind. To both Buddhists and Hindus it is the mystic heart of the world and an ancient site of pilgrimage. It has never been climbed. Even today, under Chinese dominati... More

Journalist Mark Swabey is serving a prison sentence in connection with the death of Clara the Swallow, a circus acrobat with whom he fell in love.... More

The aborigines believe that if they can turn back the sun, prevent it from "dying" each night, then the tree that once connected heaven and earth will flourish anew and "everything will be all right." This novel is about a doctor in Africa struggling to contain an unknown disease, and becoming incr... More

The descriptions of the Russian people and countryside, and the encounters and conversations with Russians are well-drawn vignettes of individuals and of the country.... More

This is a book about Thubron's journey through Red China of the 1980s. He visits both ends of the Great Wall and meanders around this vast country. ... More

Breathtaking stories and pictures of Turkey. ... More

This is one man's search for an ancient myth in a country of the past. Walking through the mountains of Lebanon, Colin Thubron seeks the ancient gods of the country and describes his findings, which include a coastline of historic ports, some impressive ruins, natural scenery and a unique medley of ... More

A riveting account of a landmark expedition that left only one survivor, now back in print for the first time in decades.Arabia Felix is the spellbinding true story of a scientific expedition gone disastrously awry. On a winter morning in 1761 six men leave Copenhagen by sea—a botanist, a philolog... More

Now in a handsome and newly revised hardcover edition: the extraordinary travelogue that has enthralled readers for more than seven centuries. <P><P> Marco Polo's vivid descriptions of the splendid cities and people he encountered on his journey along the Silk Road through the Middle East, South A... More