The Lost Heart of Asia.(Brief Article)

From: Contemporary Review | Date: June 1, 1995| Author: Mortimer, Molly | Copyright information

There are travellers who write and writers who travel. Between them Lies a river of reality. Colin Thubron belongs to the second class. He is no Thessiger or Post. He has an excellent mixture as before which teases out into gobbets of history and chats with the natives, heavily larded with epithet and adjective of which he has a large and original variety; and uses deftly. But like an over rich cake, scintillation can sicken and so die like gorgeous palaces of the 'Tempest'. There is...

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