Colin Thubron once sat in a Soviet customs office watching a KGB officer read his travel notes, unable to tell whether the book he had spent years building was about to be confiscated forever. The officer looked up and said: “This is very poetic. You could publish this.”
Widely regarded as the travel writer’s travel writer, Thubron has travelled alone, writing books on Syria, Russia, and China, driven by a fascination with the unknown.
In this episode, Rajan Datar speaks to Colin Thubron about the journeys that shaped his life and writing, the vivid way in which he sees the world, and his method for getting lost wherever you are.
Colin Thubron on Travel That Made Me.
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