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...
"Colin Thubron is the intrepid, resourceful and immensely talented writer who has made a career out of going to out of the way places and then writing brilliantly about them."--Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World "Thanks to Thubron, we encounter a world which,...