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For nearly 150 years, the secret society of the Assassins used subterfuge, intimidation, and even assassination to control the Middle East, from ... More

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In the late 1980s, Christina Dodwell moves from a Greek Easter into a chilly Eastern Turkish spring, not improved for the cold and hungry traveller ... More

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This is an account of a journey on horseback made by the author through Cappadocia, Iran and into Pakistan. Places visited include Pasargad, Niksh-i ... More

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One of the most unconventional and courageous explorers of her time, Freya Stark chronicled her extraordinary Travels in the Near East, establishing ... More

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Alison Wearing went on a trip beyond the legacy of revolution, religious fundamentalism and veiled women to find the real people of Iran. Posing as a ... More

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Edged by the fearsome Empty Quarter to the North, the Arabian Sea to the South and resting on layers of history that stretch back to the dawn of ... More

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A real-life adventure that inspired countless travellers in fact and fiction, the "Penguin Classics" edition of Robert Byron's "The Road to Oxiana" ... More

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Travels from West Africa, Egypt and Iran to Central Asia, India, Pakistan and Southeast Asia. This book offers a portrait of devasted parts of the ... More

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"Isfahan is half the world" was the proud boast of the 17th-century capital of Persia, established as the new political centre of the country by Shah ... More

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"Travels in Iran and the Caucasus" is a stimulating and informative account of an Ottoman administrator's missions to the region in the mid ... More

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First published in 1893, this is one of the great classics of travel. Going far beyond the record of a journey, it gives lively and entrancing ... More

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The place names are familiar to anyone who watches the evening news: Kurdistan. Kirkuk. Mosul. Baghdad. In the early 1900s, author ELY BANISTER SOANE ... More

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