Christopher Taylor reviews To a Mountain in Tibet by Colin Thubron in the London Review of Books, saying Thubron’s “books turn on the encounter between the energetic yet dreamy narrator, moving ‘in a boyish euphoria of self-sufficiency’, as he puts it in Behind the Wall: A Journey through China, and the sometimes deflating realities he finds. Once these have made him feel grizzled and disabused he’ll have a moment of human contact or a brush with the beautiful…” Thubron is the quintessential English travel writer, and he can’t help it. (via George Grant)