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  Shadow of the Silk Road

  by Colin Thubron

  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, across northern Afghanistan and the plains of Iran and into Kurdish Turkey, Colin Thubron covers some seven thousand miles in eight months. Making his way by local bus, truck, car, donkey cart and camel, he travels from the tomb of the Yellow Emperor, the mythic... (more)
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  Lonely Planet Journeys

  In Xanadu

  by William Dalrymple

  'William Dalrymple has written a delightful book of travels ... a brilliant debut.' - PHILIP GLAZEBROOK, Spectator 'A splendid piece of British eccentricity with all manner of echoes: Freya Stark, Peter Fleming, Robert Byron ... Dalrymple is plainly either brilliant, or bonkers, or both.' - ALAN FRANKS, The Times ' In Xanadu is so uncommonly satisfying because of the rare skill with which William... (more)
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  The Secret History of the Mongol Queens

  How the Daughters of Genghis Khan Rescued His Empire

  by Jack Weatherford

  The Mongol queens of the thirteenth century ruled the largest empire the world has ever known. Yet sometime near the end of the century, censors cut a section from The Secret History of the Mongols, leaving a single tantalizing quote from Genghis Khan: “Let us reward our female offspring.” Only this hint of a father’s legacy for his daughters remained of a much larger story. The queens of the Silk Route turned... (more)
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  Song of the Silk Road

  by Mingmei Yip

  As a girl growing up in Hong Kong, Lily Lin was captivated by photographs of the desert - its long, lonely vistas and shifting sand dunes. Now living in New York, Lily is struggling to finish her graduate degree when she receives an astonishing offer. An aunt she never knew existed will pay Lily a huge sum to travel across China's desolate Taklamakan Desert - and carry out a series of tasks along the way.... (more)
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  Gentlemen of the Road

  A Tale of Adventure

  by Michael Chabon

  Michael Chabon’s Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, sprang from an early passion for the derring-do and larger-than-life heroes of classic comic books. Now, once more mining the rich past, Chabon summons the rollicking spirit of legendary adventures–from The Arabian Nights to Alexandre Dumas to Fritz Leiber’s Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser stories–in a wonderful new novel... (more)
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  A Bride's Story: Book 1

  A Bride's Story: v. 1

  by Kaoru Mori, Kaoru Mori

  Amir is twenty years old when she marries her husband, a boy named Karluk from a neighboring village. Adjusting to life in a new household can be trying for any young bride, but Amir's husband is eight years her junior! Amir was a strong, sophisticated hunter and horsewoman in her village, but though their villages were next to each other, their customs are very different. As Amir introduces Karluk to the foods... (more)
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  Jack Howard: Book 4

  The Tiger Warrior

  by David Gibbins

  Two ancient cultures, a lost treasure from the distant past: what powerful secrets does it conceal—and how far will some go to possess them? Dive into a new full-throttle hunt from master of the action-adventure thriller David Gibbins, as he unleashes… The trail starts in the Roman ruins and leads to a shipwreck off the coast of Egypt. Soon the world’s top marine archaeologist, Jack Howard, and his team of... (more)
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  The Journeyer

  by Gary Jennings

  Marco Polo was nicknamed "Marco of the millions" because his Venetian countrymen took the grandiose stories of his travels to be exaggerated, if not outright lies. As he lay dying, his priest, family, and friends offered him a last chance to confess his mendacity, and Marco, it is said, replied "I have not told the half of what I saw and did." Now Gary Jennings has imagined the half that Marco left unsaid as even... (more)
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  The Travels of Marco Polo

  by Marco Polo

  Marco Polo's travels with an introduction by John Masefield.
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  The Lost Heart of Asia

  by Colin Thubron

  A land of enormous proportions, countless secrets, and incredible history, Central Asia--the heart of the great Mongol empire of Tamerlane, site of the legendary Silk Route and scene of Stalin's cruelest deportations--is a remote and fascinating region. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the emergence of newly independent republics, Central Asia--containing the magical cities of Bukhara and Samarkand, and... (more)
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  Chengli and the Silk Road Caravan

  by Hildi Kang

  Chengli is an orphaned errand boy who lives in Chang’an China in 630 A.D. His mother has died from illness and his father is presumed dead after disappearing into the desert when Chengli was a baby. Now thirteen, Chengli feels ready for independence. He is drawn to the desert, beckoned by the howling of strange winds and the hope of learning something about his father—who he was and how he died. Chengli joins a... (more)
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  Traveling the Silk Road : ancient pathway to the modern world

  by Mark Norell

  An elegantly, lavishly illustrated history of the legendary Silk Road and the cultural pathway it blazed for the modern world.   Spanning centuries of history, this engrossing book--created in conjunction with the world-famous American Museum of Natural History--takes an epic journey to major stops in China, Uzbekistan, Iraq, and beyond. Not only did people from many lands trade their goods along this... (more)
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  NIGHT TRAIN TO TURKISTAN - MODERN ADVENTURES ALONG CHINA'S ANCIENT SILK ROAD

  by Stuart Stevens

  The first account of travel in Chinese Turkistan, closed to foreigners since 1949, shows a world where bureaucratic hazards often loom larger than geographical ones. First serial to Esquire.
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  Extremes along the Silk Road: Adventures off the World's Oldest Superhighway

  by Nick Middleton

  Nick Middleton—geographer, travel writer, and Oxford don—pits himself against the punishing extremes of the fabled route that links East and West. The Silk Road cuts through one of the most extraordinary landscapes on the planet. A vast region separating China from the Mediterranean, it is one of the most inhospitable places on earth—a forbidding terrain of hostile deserts, treacherous mountain ranges, howling... (more)
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  Aurel Stein On The Silk Road.

  by Susan Whitfield

  Beautifully illustrated account of the adventures of the great Silk Road explorer and archaeologist Sir Aurel Stein, whose expeditions a century ago included the discovery of an amazing hoard of Buddhist paintings, hidden since the 11th century inside a secret cave at Dunhuang.
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  Child of Light

  by Diane Bentley Baker

  Diane Bentley Baker, originally from San Mateo, California, has been a spinner and dyer for almost 35 years. After a long career as a word processor, she now lives with her husband and a long yellow cat in Eugene, Oregon. She teaches in the fiber arts and is an avid photographer, poet and writer. Some of her articles can be seen in Spin-Off Magazine and various fiber arts newsletters.
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  Großer- Tiger und Christian.

  by Fritz Mühlenweg

  Großer-Tiger, ein junger Chinese, und sein deutscher Freund Christian werden mit einer geheimen Mission durch die Wüste Gobi geschickt. Um ans Ziel ihrer Reise, nach Urumtschi, zu gelangen, müssen die Jungen sich mit asiatischen Lebens- und Denkgewohnheiten auseinandersetzen. Fritz Mühlenwegs atemberaubender und gleichermaßen fantasievoll-poetischer Roman zählt zu den schönsten klassischen Reise-Abenteuer-Büchern!... (more)
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  Legend of the Last Vikings - Taklamakan

  by John Halsted

  A Viking Saga. Action and adventure at the end of the Viking age from Norway across the European Steppe, along the Silk Route into China's notorious Taklamakan desert. The desert so called by locals because those who venture in seldom venture out. Experience ancient peoples, cultures, lost tribes and hidden kingdoms. As well as mystery, action, adventure, love, lust, greed, comradeship and betrayal. Just what one... (more)
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  The Afghan Amulet: Travels from the Hindu Kush (Tauris Parke Paperbacks)

  by Sheila Paine

  Intrigued by an exquisite and mysterious amulet on an antique dress from Kohistan, ‘land of mountains’ in Pakistan, Sheila Paine began an epic quest that took her from the peaks of the Himalaya to the shores of Greece. In this, the first part of her journey, she set off alone and undaunted for the wilds of the Hindu Kush, her only possessions a tiny rucksack and a litre of vodka. Over the course of several months... (more)
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  The Prehistory of the Silk Road (Encounters with Asia)

  by E. E. Kuz?mina

  In ancient and medieval times, the Silk Road was of great importance to the transport of peoples, goods, and ideas between the East and the West. A vast network of trade routes, it connected the diverse geographies and populations of China, the Eurasian Steppe, Central Asia, India, Western Asia, and Europe. Although its main use was for importing silk from China, traders moving in the opposite direction carried to... (more)