Carole Matthews is one of the bestselling women's fiction writers around. Travel
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Winner Thomas Cook Travel Book 1996
For the Chinese, the Great Wall defined a psychological frontier. Within it lay the Celestial Kingdom, the compass of all civilisation. Beyond lay a barbarian world of chaos and exile. Chinese journeys to the west, along the Silk Road, were passages into the unknown, often into legend. Today the great western province of Xinjiang is still a land of exile, the destination of soldiers, reluctant settlers, political prisoners and disgraced officials. Stanley Stewart’s journey takes him halfway across Asia. In a book packed with character and incident, he explores the whys and wherefores of travel, the lure of far horizons and isolation of exile.
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