Search Results for ‘Asia’, ‘Travel Writing & Other Literature’ - 135 matches found

Among the Mountains: Travels Through Asia

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 contained...

Annapurna

Since first publication, when it sold 400,000 copies, “Annapurna” has acquired classic status. It is the enthralling account, by the leader of the French expedition, of the first conquest of Annapurna...

Bad Lands

Tony Wheeler, founder of Lonely Planet, travelled through some of the world’s most repressive and dangerous regimes. Wheeler says, “When Mr Bush produced his ‘Axis of Evil’ list, my first thought was...

Barbed Wire & Babushkas

An account of the first source-to-sea descent of Siberia's 4,400km Amur River, known in China as the Black Dragon. After wading upstream for five days, the two adventurers began their epic four-month...

Danziger's Travels

After walking and hitch-hiking through southern Turkey and the ayatollah's Iran, Danziger entered Afghanistan illegally in the wake of a convoy of Chinese weapons and spent two months dodging Russian...

Foreign Devils on the Silk Road

Peter Hopkirk’s “Foreign Devils on the Silk Road” details the tales and adventures of western explorers who uncovered and claimed the lost treasures of Central Asia. The Silk road, which linked imperial...

Ghost Train to the Eastern Star

In Ghost Train to the Eastern Star, Paul Theroux recreates the classic 1975 journey across Europe and Asia that he documented in The Great Railway Bazaar.
This exceptional journey - from London, through...

Higher than the Eagle Soars

SIGNED COPIES! Stephen Venables is one of the greatest British climbers of his generation and he has now written a full autobiography - Higher than the Eagle Soars - A Path to Everest. He explores how...

In Bear Country

Bears are a symbol of the health of an ecosystem - and the global population is dwindling to the point where only eight different species remain. These creatures have long fascinated us and their influence...

In the Empire of Genghis Khan

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...

Lone Traveller: One Woman, Two Wheels and the World

Lone Traveller is based on Anne Mustoe's second ride round the world. Taking historical routes as her inspiration again, she followed the Roman roads from Rome to Lisbon, travelled across South America...

On Secret Service East of Constantinople

Peter Hopkirk’s “On Secret Service East of Constantinople” tells the history, in thrilling style, of the least-remembered front of the First World War, the German-Turkish attempt to weaken the British...

Setting the East Ablaze: On Secret Service in Bolshevik Asia

Peter Hopkirk’s “Setting the East Ablaze” tells the narrative history, in thrilling style, of the inter-war struggle for influence in Central Asia as Lenin attempted to spread the Bolshevik cause to...

Shadow Of The Silk Road

Shadow of the Silk Road records a journey by Colin Thubron along the greatest land route on Earth. Out of the heart of China into the mountains of Central Asia (Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan...

Silverland

In Silverland, award-winning travel writer Dervla Murphy’s intrepid midwinter journey takes her from Moscow to the Russian Far East. Travelling by slow train, Murphy journeys through the world’s most...

The Bookseller of Kabul

For more than twenty years, Sultan Khan defied the authorities to supply books to the people of Kabul. He was then arrested, interrogated and improsooned, and watched illiterate soldiers burn piles...

The Great Game: On Secret Service in High Asia

Peter Hopkirk's "The Great Game" tells the history of the decades-long struggle for Central Asia in the 1800’s. For nearly a century the two most powerful nations on earth - Victorian Britain and Tsarist...

The Last Mughal

Dalrymple’s "The Last Mughal" tells the dramatic tale of India’s last Mughal Emperor, Bahadur Shah Zafar II. Directly descended from Genghis Khan and Timur of Akbar and Shah Jahan, his Mughal ancestors...

The Last Secrets of the Silk Road

The Lost Heart of Asia

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In 1993 Colin Thubron set out to explore the Moslem republics of the former Soviet Union. He visited the magical cities of Bukhara, Samarkand and Tashkent and travelled the Kazakh steppes...