The Silk Roads

£13.99

Trailblazer's overland route & planning guide to The Silk Roads is a comprehensive and practical guide to one of the greatest journeys you can take; the various trade routes crossing Asia from the Mediterranean to the Pacific. With a wealth of detailed practical information, this guide is an essential companion for those planning and executing this monumental journey.

The Silk Road was never a single thread across Asia but an intricate web of shorter routes - Silk Roads - that together linked the Pacific Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea. This guidebook is the first to cover these routes in their entirety and with it you can retrace the Golden Road to Samarkand, follow in the footsteps of Alexander the Great, Genghis Khan and Marco Polo, and travel the length of the Great Wall of China. With detailed information on over 10,000km (6000 miles) of overland routes both by road and rail, this guide includes:

- 51 city guides with maps - Where to stay, where to eat and what to see in 51 stopovers along the way, including: Istanbul, Göreme, Antakya, Aleppo, Hama, Palmyra, Damascus, Malatya, Erzurum, Dogubeyazit, Tabriz, Ghazvin, Tehran, Esfahan, Shiraz, Mashad, Merv, Ashgabat, Konye-Urgench, Nukus, Khiva, Bukhara, Samarkand, Tashkent, Osh, Bishkek, Issyk Kul, Song Kul, Karimabad, Gilgit, Rawalpindi, Islamabad, Kashgar, Kuqa, Turfan, Khotan, Dunhuang, Jiayuguan, Lanzhou, Xi’an, Pingyao, Datong and Beijing

- Practical information - For travellers in Syria, Turkey, Iran, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan and China

- Planning your trip - Information for all budgets whether you're an independent traveller or joining a group

- Also includes lesser-known routes - Southern Taklamakan, Kashgar-Rawalpindi (Karakorum Highway) Marco Polo’s route to Xanadu

- Extensive history of the Silk Roads

- Useful phrases - Arabic, Farsi, Russian and Chinese

- Includes 60 maps