"A superb account of a pilgrimage. . . . Characteristically beautiful, though uncharacteristically haunted." Pico Iyer, New York Review of Books"Thubron walks for the dead and writes for the living, and I can’t remember when I have been so thoroughly and deeply moved by an author’s outward journey inward." Bob Shacochis, Boston Globe New York Times bestselling author Colin Thubron returns with a moving, intimate, and exquisitely crafted travel memoir recounting his pilgrimage to the Hindu and Buddhist holy mountain of Kailaswhose peak represents the most sacred place on Earth to roughly a quarter the global population. With echoes of Peter Matthiessens The Snow Leopard, Peter Hesslers Country Driving, and Paul Theorouxs Ghost Train to the Eastern Star, Thubrons follow up to his bestselling Shadow of the Silk Road will illuminate, interest, and inspire anyone interested in traveling the world or journeying into the soul.
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