1 India: the Road Ahead
by Mark Tully
| Format: | Hardback 320 pages |
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| Published: | 04/08/2011 |
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Since the Indian economy was liberated from bureaucratic, socialist controls in 1991, it has developed rapidly. But there are many questions which... Read more
2 White Fever: A Journey to the Frozen Heart of Siberia
by Jacek Hugo-Bader, Antonia Lloyd-Jones
| Format: | Hardback 336 pages |
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| Published: | 07/07/2011 |
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A lone journey by jeep (and occasionally kayak) across one of the world's most inhospitable and surreal landscapes. An unparalleled insight into... Read more
3 Shadow of the Silk Road
| Format: | Paperback 384 pages |
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| Published: | 04/10/2007 |
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Traces the drifts of the trade route out of the heart of China into the mountains of Central Asia, across northern Afghanistan and the plains of... Read more
4 Country Driving: A Chinese Road Trip
| Format: | Paperback 560 pages |
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| Published: | 21/04/2011 |
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Full of extraordinary encounters and details of life beyond Beijing, Country Driving is an unforgettable, unique portrait of the country that will... Read more
5 Arabian Sands
by Wilfred Thesiger, Rory Stewart
| Format: | Paperback 368 pages |
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| Published: | 07/07/2007 |
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Wilfred Thesiger was born in Addis Ababa and educated at Eton and Oxford. In the spirit of TE Lawrence, Thesiger spent five years exploring the... Read more
6 The Marsh Arabs
by Wilfred Thesiger, Jon Lee Anderson
| Format: | Paperback 240 pages |
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| Published: | 25/10/2007 |
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During the years he spent among the Marsh Arabs of southern Iraq Wilfred Thesiger came to understand, admire and share a way of life that had... Read more
7 The Road to Oxiana
by Robert Byron
| Format: | Paperback 416 pages |
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| Published: | 01/04/2010 |
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In 1933, the delightfully eccentric Robert Byron set out on a journey through the Middle East via Beirut, Jerusalem, Baghdad and Teheran to Oxiana.... Read more
8 Meeting Mr Kim: How I Went to Korea and Learned to Love Kimchi
| Format: | Paperback 288 pages |
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| Published: | 04/08/2008 |
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The world knows more about secret North Korea than the free society of the South. As a peace summit heralded a new era for a country divided for 50... Read more
9 Drinking Arak Off an Ayatollah's Beard: A Journey Through the Inside-out Worlds of Iran and Afghanistan
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| Published: | 04/06/2010 |
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To better understand the cultural issues and paradoxes facing Iranians and Afghans today, the author travels from the underground dance parties of... Read more
10 City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi
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| Published: | 11/04/1994 |
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A scintillating memoir of a year spent in Delhi by one of the best young writers at work today. Read more
