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Afghanistan

Indexed road map of Afghanistan with topographic and tourist information, published by Reise Know-How as part of their highly acclaimed World Mapping Project. The map is double-sided to provide the...

Afghanistan

Double-sided map with the north of the country on one side and the south on the other, with a generous overlap for the central region. Main roads and railways, places of interest and historical sites...

Afghanistan - Pakistan - Tajikistan

Physical road map of Afghanistan with bold altitude colouring. The map includes the whole of Tajikistan, plus Pakistan, but with its northern boundary drawn without Jammu and Kashmir, all of which is...

Pamirs

One of the titles in a series of 1:500,000 maps of Tajikistan and the adjoining areas of the neighbouring countries, providing coverage from Samarkand to Kashgar, including the Pamir Mountains. The...

Afghanistan - A Companion and Guide

The Odyssey Guide to Afghanistan is a cultural, historical and practical guide for those interesting in more than just the country’s violent history. Thanks to 20 years of civil war and its association...

Afghanistan

About this series:
Market-leading comprehensive guides, predominantly practical in content and aimed at independent travellers. Frank and informal in style, with a layout that makes for exceptional...

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...

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...

The Light Garden of the Angel King

A new edition of Peter Levi's account of his travels in Afghanistan with Bruce Chatwin in 1970. As a classical scholar and archaeologist his desire was to visit sites of Greek archaeology outside mainland...

The Road to Oxiana

This the diary Byron kept while travelling through Persia and Afghanistan in 1933-34. With lots of detail and deep insight, Byron provides us with a vivid account of the people and places he comes across...

In the Shadow of Mountains

A new collection of portraits, landscapes and street photography taken by Steve McCurry in Afghanistan over the last 27 years. Children and shepherds, warriors and labourers are presented alongside...

A Darkness Visible

The result of trips to Afghanistan since 1994, “A Darkness Visible” presents a selection of acclaimed photographer Seamus Murphy’s black and white photography from a changing land. After the US-led...

Afghanistan, Pakistan & the Middle East

Actually centred on the Persian Gulf, this 77x60cm map depicts Afghanistan and the adjacent countries and extends west to include the rest of the Middle East and the Red Sea. The cartography is the...

Afghanistan Wallmap

With over 2500 place names shown, this 102x71cm map depicts more smaller settlements than can be found on other maps of the country, however no impression of relief is given as elevation detail only...

The Way of the World

Part candid description of a road journey, part a meditation on travel, this is the tale of a life-enhancing journey taken in the 1950s from Geneva to the Khyber Pass on very little money. When Nicolas...

Descent into Chaos

In “Descent into Chaos”, celebrated journalist and leading expert on Central Asia and extremism Ahmed Rashid explains why he believes the US-led ‘War on Terror’ is failing to prevent the spread and...

Magic Bus

In the 1960s hundreds of thousands of young Westerners, inspired by Kerouac and the Beatles, blazed the 'hippie trail' overland from Istanbul to Kathmandu in search of enlightenment and a bit of cheap...

Afghanistan - Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul

“Afghanistan - Hidden Treasures…” is a superb illustrated book, giving a face to Afghanistan and it’s rich history without modern conflict forfeiting the treasures within.
In 1978, an archaeologist...

Pamir West

About these maps:
Series of 11 topographic map sheets covering Kyrgizstan and surroundings - including Almaty, Bishkek, Dushanbe, Tashkent, Samarkand, Chimkent.
Relief is portrayed by elevation tinting...

The Kite Runner

Amir, an illiterate Afghan boy growing up in 1970’s Kabul, befriends his father’s servant’s son from the despised Hazara minority. Now a 40-year-old novelist living in California Amir narrates his childhood...