Prizes and Awards
- 1967 Book Society Choice, Mirror to Damascus
- 1985 PEN/Macmillan Silver Pen Award, A Cruel Madness
- 1988 Hawthornden Prize, Behind the Wall: A journey through China
- 1998 Thomas Cook Travel Book Award, Behind the Wall: A Journey through China
- 1991 Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society
- 2000 Mungo Park Medal of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society
- 2001 Lawrence of Arabia Memorial Medal of the Royal Society for Asian Affairs
- 2002 Hon.D Lit University of Warwick
- 2003-9 Vice-President, The Royal Society of Literature
- 2007 Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE), New Year's Honours
- 2008 Society of Authors Travel Award
- 2009- President, The Royal Society of Literature
- 2010 Prix Bouvier, France, In Siberia
- 2011 Ness Award of the Royal Geographical Society
- 2012 Dolman Best Travel Book Award, shortlist, To a Mountain in Tibet
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