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"A master class in travel writing... Thubron showcases here all the skills that have earned him the champion's belt as Britain's best living travel writer."
--"Sunday Times"
"Exquisitely written, To a Mountain in Tibet""is not just a travelogue; it amounts to a heart-felt hosanna to the travails of walking... a matchless work of literary travel, [it] confirms Thubron as a wise and discriminate prospector in the affairs of man."
--"Irish Times"
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"This is a bold and brave journey, an elegiac book by a master of prose at the height of his powers."
--"Evening Standard"
"Given that Thubron has shown himself over a lifetime's work to be our finest, is seems fitting that what is as much memoir as travel book should have as its setting the greatest spiritual pilgrimage the East has to offer."
"--Daily Telegraph"
"The writing glitters. Thubron has always been a travel-writing stylist, in the lyrical mould of Patrick Leigh Fermor, but with the quartz-like eye of Freya Stark."
--"Scotsman"
--"Sunday Times"
"Exquisitely written, To a Mountain in Tibet""is not just a travelogue; it amounts to a heart-felt hosanna to the travails of walking... a matchless work of literary travel, [it] confirms Thubron as a wise and discriminate prospector in the affairs of man."
--"Irish Times"
" "
"This is a bold and brave journey, an elegiac book by a master of prose at the height of his powers."
--"Evening Standard"
"Given that Thubron has shown himself over a lifetime's work to be our finest, is seems fitting that what is as much memoir as travel book should have as its setting the greatest spiritual pilgrimage the East has to offer."
"--Daily Telegraph"
"The writing glitters. Thubron has always been a travel-writing stylist, in the lyrical mould of Patrick Leigh Fermor, but with the quartz-like eye of Freya Stark."
--"Scotsman"
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The doyen of travel writing at his elegiac and luminous best.
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75 of 77 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Travel writer extraordinaire Colin Thubron is back. If you're familiar with his rich, mellifluous prose and empathetic exploration of non-western culture, religion and history, then this is a must-read piece of work.
To a Mountain in Tibet describes the author's journey as embarks on a pilgrimage to sacred Mount Kailas, encountering on his way a fascinating cross-section of Nepalese and Tibetan society.
Shorter than usual but movingly personal, profound and highly evocative, this is a book (like all of Thubron's) which deserves to be read again and again.
To a Mountain in Tibet describes the author's journey as embarks on a pilgrimage to sacred Mount Kailas, encountering on his way a fascinating cross-section of Nepalese and Tibetan society.
Shorter than usual but movingly personal, profound and highly evocative, this is a book (like all of Thubron's) which deserves to be read again and again.
12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This book has really lifted my spirits! I have not read Colin Thubron before and my purchasing this book was due to my personal interest in Tibetan Buddhism & Mandala's, Bon culture and also a long and ongoing desire to visit Lake Manasarovar at some point before I die.
I enjoyed the focus of the book being about the landscape and its references to Tibet's culture and beliefs and it has helped me realise that if I am to go, I should study even more beforehand so I can really SEE the symbolism surrounding Mount Kailas.
A previous reviewer didn't like the lack of human relationship in the book, but for me this was liberating - I often get put off going to a place when a travel book focuses on connecting with the locals - this doesn't really happen much for the passer by and when it does it is a deep shared moment often made lightweight when shared in the pages of such a spiritual landscape.
I think the journey in this book reflects well the understanding that all things are transient. I also felt the author seeing the amplification of beauty within landscape that one can only experience if or when one has lost a parent, sibling or partner. A beautiful inspiring book.
I enjoyed the focus of the book being about the landscape and its references to Tibet's culture and beliefs and it has helped me realise that if I am to go, I should study even more beforehand so I can really SEE the symbolism surrounding Mount Kailas.
A previous reviewer didn't like the lack of human relationship in the book, but for me this was liberating - I often get put off going to a place when a travel book focuses on connecting with the locals - this doesn't really happen much for the passer by and when it does it is a deep shared moment often made lightweight when shared in the pages of such a spiritual landscape.
I think the journey in this book reflects well the understanding that all things are transient. I also felt the author seeing the amplification of beauty within landscape that one can only experience if or when one has lost a parent, sibling or partner. A beautiful inspiring book.
17 of 18 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
That Colin Thubron is a writer out of the top drawer is beyond dispute, but I do not think this is one of his best books. Always an author who deploys a rich descriptive vocabulary, in this book I feel Thubron overdoes it. The descriptive vocabulary is often so dense and the use of simile so frequent that, instead of helping me picture the landscape through which the author was trekking, I was often stopped in my tracks part way through a sentence trying to work out what he was saying, and finding myself floundering in a soup of colourful language and imagery. In the book "In Siberia", Thubron's intense descriptive palette is offset by a deep exploration of and insight into the character of people he encounters on his journey, including his own character. In this book the narrative lacks depth and I don't feel we really learn much about anyone beyond the superficial, and not enough to make me really care deeply about anyone. I found the book heavy going - meandering and without a clear sense of purpose, even though there are some allusions to Thubron seeing the journey as an opportunity to reflect on life following the death of the last member of his immediate family. It is only in the final couple of chapters, where the author and other travellers climb very high into the mountains to go over a pass of spiritual significance that the book comes focused and sparks into life.
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The master in his element
I rather like Colin Thubron. He can take a while to get going at times, but he had me gripped from the start with his latest book in which he treks into Tibet to join the faithful... Read more
Published 22 days ago by N. Young
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A friend recommended this book as she enjoyed the intense descriptions and innovative word choices. I did not share her enthusiasm for this style of writing. Read more
Published 1 month ago by pandy
Enjoyable
This is the first book I've read of Colin Thubron's and I will now look for more.I really enjoyed it. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Kindler
Well observed, beautiful at times, but perhaps a missed opportunity
Thubron travels on foot from Simikot in the borderlands of Nepal, across the high passes and into Tibet, en route to the holy mountain of Kailas, sacred to Hindus, Jains and... Read more
Published 2 months ago by ReadThis,LikedThis
A small book which tackles big subjects
Colin Thubron's most recent book can be read in half a day or less, but it deserves to have more time devoted to its contents. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Mr. Stephen Greensted
Why is he making this journey?
Very well written almost poetic at times and I like that.
But it is as if his heart isn't in it at all times. Read more
But it is as if his heart isn't in it at all times. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Boels
A Pilgrim's Progress
The book describes Thubron's pilgrimage to the sacred Mount Kailas (Meru) in Tibet. He undertakes it in memory of his mother who has recently died - though he cannot really... Read more
Published 4 months ago by Ralph Blumenau
Holy Mountain
It's not just beautifully written but deeply moving too. What's more I learnt more about Tantric Buddhism than I did on a visit to Ladakh some time ago. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Lizzie Savage
Excellent description of Saga Dawa and the kora around Mount Kailash
This book tells the author's trek from Simikot in Nepal to Mount Kailash in Tibet for Saga Dawa in 2009, undertaken to commemorate the recent death of his mother. Read more
Published 5 months ago by Jerome Ryan
Deep,truthful and absorbing
Having long been fascinated by Tibet,I was delighted to find Colin Thubron's latest book.His writing is wonderful,full of detail,description,history,religion and personal... Read more
Published 5 months ago by Lorna Bevan
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