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Planning a trip to Asia? Browse our collection of Asia guide books and maps below; our collection includes travel guides from renowned publishers as well as specialist, hard-to-find publications. We also feature recommended holiday reading and all your essential travel accessories.

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In Xanadu - A Quest
by William Dalrymple
When the Karakoram Highway reopened in 1986 it was again possible to use the mountain road linking Pakistan and China and so to complete an overland trip from Jerusalem to Xanadu for the first time in...
- Publisher: Flamingo
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The Zanzibar Chest - A Memoir of Love and War
by Aidan Hartley
"We should never have come!" so said Aidan Hartley's father in his final days, rising from a bed made of mountain cedar, lashed with thongs of rawhide from an oryx shot many years before. His words...
- Publisher: HarperCollins
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In the Empire of Genghis Khan
by Stanley Stewart
WINNER OF THE THOMAS COOK/ DAILY TELEGRAPH TRAVEL BOOK 2001

"In The Empire of Genghis Khan" is a superb book, feeling like an epic poem of old, it's all the more incredible when you realise this was...
- Publisher: HarperCollins
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The Glass Palace
by Amitav Ghosh
Rajkumar is only a boy, helping out on a market stall in the dusty square outside the royal palace in Mandalay, when the British force the Burmese King, Queen and court into exile. Thus begins this...
- Publisher: HarperCollins
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City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi
by William Dalrymple
Dalrymple’s second book was the result of a six year stay in Delhi. Here he removes the focus from his own experiences to instead attempt to uncover the various layers of both old and new Delhi....
- Publisher: Flamingo
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Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
by Jung Chang
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang is the story of three different lives, three different generations and three different periods of Chinese History. The author left China in 1978...
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In the Rose Garden of the Martyrs - Memoir of Iran
by Christopher de Bellaigue
Few historians and journalists writing in English have been able to meaninfully examine post-revolutionary Iranian life. Years after his death, the shadow of Ayatollah Khomeini still looms over...
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Among the Mountains: Travels Through Asia
by Wilfred Thesiger
Wilfred Thesiger, arguably last century's greatest explorer, recalls his travels among the mountain ranges of Asia. Although he originally wanted it to be a book of photographs, his diaries c...
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White Mughals
by William Dalrymple
William Dalrymple’s fifth book, White Mughals, does not follow his usual technique of travelling and discovering and storytelling. Rather this work is a social history, an account of the much u...
- Publisher: Flamingo
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A Fortune-teller Told Me
by Tiziano Terzani
It was 1976 when Tiziano Terzani was warned by the fortune-teller in Hong Kong: "Beware! You run a grave risk of dying in 1993. You mustn't fly that year. Don't fly, not even once." Sixteen years...
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The Age of Kali: Indian Travels and Encounters
by William Dalrymple
In The Age of Kali, William Dalrymple travels around the Indian subcontinent, journeying to places that few travellers ever get to see and often he goes at great personal risk. The name of the book...
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India with Sanjeev Bhaskar
by Sanjeev Bhaskar
Sanjeev Bhaskar, creator and writer of The Kumars at No.42 and Goodness Gracious Me, embarks on an epic and uniquely personal journey through the heart of India for his namesake BBC2 series "India...
- Publisher: HarperCollins