To The Last City
Colin Thubron
  • Published: 15 June 2003
  • ISBN: 9780099437239
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 176
  • RRP: $39.99

To The Last City

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'Colin Thubron's voice is unique: once heard, difficult to forget' Anita Brookner

To the Last City is set deep in the Peruvian Andes, where five ill-prepared travellers - men and women with different values, temperaments and motives - find themselves trekking through one of the most exacting and beautiful regions on earth.

It is a journey which may temper or destroy them. They confront not only their relationships with one another, but also the enigmas of the country's past, the dangers of its present, and the limitations of their own minds and bodies. The 'lost city' of their destination is Vilcabamba, last refuge of the Inca against the Spaniards, subsumed by jungle for four hundred years.

In this brilliant exploration of the psychological challenges of travelling, set within the exotic jungle of South America, Colin Thubron for the first time joins his highly acclaimed talents as a travel writer with his gifts as a novelist.
  • Published: 15 June 2003
  • ISBN: 9780099437239
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 176
  • RRP: $39.99
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About the author

Colin Thubron

Colin Thubron is an acknowledged master of travel writing, and the winner of many prizes and awards. His first writing was about the Middle East - Damascus, Lebanon and Cyprus. In 1982 he travelled into the Soviet Union in an ancient Morris Marina, pursued by the KGB, a journey he recorded in Among the Russians. From these early experiences developed his classic travel books: Behind the Wall (winner of the Hawthornden Prize and the Thomas Cook Travel Award), The Lost Heart of Asia, In Siberia (Prix Bouvier) and Shadow of the Silk Road. His most recent book is To a Mountain in Tibet (all available in Vintage). Colin Thubron was President of the Royal Society of Literature from 2010 to 2017.

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Also by Colin Thubron

The Amur River
Night of Fire
Journey Into Cyprus
To a Mountain in Tibet
Mirror To Damascus
The Hills Of Adonis
In Siberia
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Praise for To The Last City

One of our most compelling contemporary novelists

Independent

Colin Thubron's voice is unique: once heard, difficult to forget

Anita Brookner

Colin Thubron seems to be a writer undaunted by immensity, either of place or plot... To the Last City is haunting and passionate and, above all, magnificently fearless

Observer

A tense, precarious achievement, brilliantly evoking a dangerous journey

The Times

It is the sharpness of the topography that brings this book to life, the handling of the characters is equally impressive... Thubron has captured, with a vividness that few could match...the charms of a journey into the unknown

Sunday Telegraph

An intriguing and worthwhile success

Times Literary Supplement
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