In his latest absorbing travel epic, Thubron (In Siberia ; Mirror to Damascus ) follows the course—or at least the general drift—of the ancient network of trade routes that connected central ...

It is 50 years since writer Colin Thubron published his portrait of Damascus, in which he recounted his travels around the Syrian capital and explored the history of the city. A lot has happened ...

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Posting on X, formerly Twitter,, external on Friday night, Insp Dave Thubron said the incident was "incredibly serious". Mr Thubron said: "I am looking at deploying multiple resources to this and ...

Book of the Week. Colin Thubron documents his journey along the tenth-longest river in the world, rising in the Mongolian mountains and flowing through Siberia to the Pacific.