Search Results for ‘Central Asia’, ‘Travel Writing & Other Literature’ - 22 matches found

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...

In the Empire of Genghis Khan

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"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...

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...

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 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...

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...

Full Tilt: Dunkirk to Delhi by Bicycle

On her tenth Birthday Dervla Murphy was given a bicycle and an atlas. A few days later she decided to cycle to India. Twenty years later she set off from Dunkirk towards Delhi. The epic journey took...

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...

Freedom in Exile

The Dalai Lama's autobiography should leave no one in doubt of his humility and genuine compassion. Written without the slightest hint of pretence, the exiled leader of Tibet recounts his life, from...

Heartlands: Travels in the Tibetan World

On a quest to come to grips and understand Tibet's culture, Michael Buckley leaves Lhasa and the Autonomous region of Tibet, where Chinese occupation has stifled Tibetan culture and visits other places...

Seven Years in Tibet

Heinrich Harrer, already a famous mountaineer and Olympic ski champion, was caught by the outbreak of the Second World War while climbing in the Himalayas. Being Austrian he was interned in India. By...

Shadow Of The Silk Road

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

The Last Secrets of the Silk Road

The Search for Shangri-La: A Journey into Tibetan History

The idea of a hidden refuge, a paradise far from the stresses of modern life, has universal appeal. In 1932 the writer James Hilton coined the word "Shangri-La" to describe such a place, when he gave...

Tibet, Tibet

"Tibet, Tibet" is a personal history of this disputed land - not the mysterious mountain kingdom of lamas and gold-roofed monasteries of the Western imagination, but a real place with a tumultuous past...

Younghusband

In this travelling biography, Patrick French tells the story of the man who held the world record for the 300-yard dash, discovered a new overland route from China to India, and organized the early...

Shisha Pangma

Revolution Baby - Motherhood and Anarchy in Kyrgyzstan

“This is my story about how our baby grew in the shadow of the Tien Shan mountains, we survived a revolution and I learnt to love Bishkek, even though it’s made of concrete and people spit on your feet...