Stanley Stewart is a regular contributor to the Sunday Times and the Daily Telegraph where his work, taking him to over fifty countries, has won numberous prestigious awards, including, on three occasions, Travel Writer of the Year. He is the author of Old Serpent Nile, an account of his journey to the source of the river, and of Froniers of Heaven, the story of his journey across China from Shanghai to Xinjiang, for which he won the Thomas Cook/Daily Telegraph Travel Book Award. He was born in Ireland, grew up in Canada and lives in London.

‘One of the best travel books of the year.’ Sunday Times‘Humane and funny…an excellent book with sharp, compassionate observations on the lives of people struggling with the weight of history.’ Spectator‘Stewart is a sensitive, observant traveller, and a gifted writer…in this entertaining, colourful and moving book he reveals both the sad absurdity of this beguiling land and the heartbreaking pathos of its modern history.’ Sara Wheeler, Literary Review‘A classic travel story, beautifully written…’ Wanderlust

Stanley Stewart is a regular contributor to the Sunday Times and the Daily Telegraph where his work, taking him to over fifty countries, has won numberous prestigious awards, including, on three occasions, Travel Writer of the Year. He is the author of Old Serpent Nile, an account of his journey to the source of the river, and of Froniers of Heaven, the story of his journey across China from Shanghai to Xinjiang, for which he won the Thomas Cook/Daily Telegraph Travel Book Award. He was born in Ireland, grew up in Canada and lives in London.

‘One of the best travel books of the year.’ Sunday Times‘Humane and funny…an excellent book with sharp, compassionate observations on the lives of people struggling with the weight of history.’ Spectator‘Stewart is a sensitive, observant traveller, and a gifted writer…in this entertaining, colourful and moving book he reveals both the sad absurdity of this beguiling land and the heartbreaking pathos of its modern history.’ Sara Wheeler, Literary Review‘A classic travel story, beautifully written…’ Wanderlust

Stanley Stewart is a regular contributor to the Sunday Times and the Daily Telegraph where his work, taking him to over fifty countries, has won numberous prestigious awards, including, on three occasions, Travel Writer of the Year. He is the author of Old Serpent Nile, an account of his journey to the source of the river, and of Froniers of Heaven, the story of his journey across China from Shanghai to Xinjiang, for which he won the Thomas Cook/Daily Telegraph Travel Book Award. He was born in Ireland, grew up in Canada and lives in London.

‘One of the best travel books of the year.’ Sunday Times‘Humane and funny…an excellent book with sharp, compassionate observations on the lives of people struggling with the weight of history.’ Spectator‘Stewart is a sensitive, observant traveller, and a gifted writer…in this entertaining, colourful and moving book he reveals both the sad absurdity of this beguiling land and the heartbreaking pathos of its modern history.’ Sara Wheeler, Literary Review‘A classic travel story, beautifully written…’ Wanderlust