He wandered for 14 years through the lands near the Black Sea, adopting the life of poverty advocated by the Cynics.
The Lost Heart of Asia (1994), In Siberia (1999), and Shadow of the Silk Road (2006) describe Thubron's journeys through the lands of Central Asia.
After nearly losing Moscow, the Red Army turned the tide and pushed the Germans back through the lands they had conquered: Hungary, Romania, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, and Poland, countries that were thus invaded twice in five years.
On its 1,000km journey from west to east it cuts a swathe through the lands of the former Yugoslavia, connecting four countries and three capitals, and dividing old city centres from their newer suburbs.
The Sioux have organized an intertribal tourism council, and set up a Native American Scenic Byway -- "a journey through the lands of the least known and most misunderstood nations in America," as the Indians say in a brochure for the road and its highlights.
As the daughter of a female vicar, the last thing I want to do is go to a party dressed as my mother (although this is only a matter of time. I've already found myself flicking through the Lands' End catalogue and eyeing up Ecco shoes).
