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"Rick Steves' Istanbul" is a "tour guide in your pocket" to one of the world's grandest cities. Walking in the footsteps of Byzantine emperors and ... More

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An acclaimed National Public Radio reporter takes a dramatic journey along China's Route 312 from its start in the boomtown of Shanghai to its end on ... More

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In 1973 Mathiessen journeyed wioth George Schaller, a field biologist, to Crystal Mountain in the Himalayas, to study the wiild blue sheep of the ... More

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When Peter Hessler went to China in the late 1990s, he expected to spend a couple of peaceful years teaching English in the town of Fuling on the ... More

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A landmark in travel writing, this is the incredible true story of Heinrich Harrer's escape across the Himalayas to Tibet, set against the backdrop ... More

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In 2001, Rory Stewart set off from Herat to walk to Kabul via the mountains of Ghor in central Afghanistan. This is literary travel writing, but with ... More

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Chronicling the 13th-century world from Venice, his birthplace, to the far reaches of Asia, Marco Polo tells of the foreign peoples he meets as he ... More

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Widely used and praised for almost forty years as an authoritative resource for scholars and students and as a thorough and engaging introduction for ... More

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In the 1,000 years after Christ, merchants, missionaries, monks, mendicants and military men travelled the network of Central Asian tracks known as ... More

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Wilfred Thesiger charts the time he spent living with the Bedu, including his legendary traverses of the Empty Quarter. Wilfred Thesiger is the last ... More

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Friendly and fun-loving, exotic and tropical, cultured and historic, Thailand beams with a lustrous hue from its gaudy temples and golden beaches to ... 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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Return to "The Great Railway Bazaar" in "Ghost Train to the Eastern Star" as Paul Theroux experiences the journey that launched his travel writing ... More

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The Tsangpo Gorge cuts through the eastern end of the Himalayas to form the deepest, most remote river canyon on earth. It is revered as the last ... More

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The Great Railway Bazaar is Paul Theroux's classic and much-loved homage to train travel. The Orient Express; The Khyber Pass Local; the Delhi Mail ... More

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Packed with color photographs, illustrations, and detailed maps, this travel guide explores China region-by region providing insider tips every ... More

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This text is a semi-autobiographical account of a year V.S. Naipaul spent in India. From his arrival in prohibition-dry Bombay, bearing whisky and ... More

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Great for the tourist interested in hiking and skiing, as Korea preps for the 2018 Winter Olympics. It includes coverage of North and South Korea, ... More

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In one of the most brilliant and intrepid memoirs in recent memory, Emma Larkin tells of the year she spent travelling through Burma, using as a ... More

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Salzman's mastery of martial arts, which allowed him to become truly an expert on Chinese life, is matched only by his skill as a storyteller, making ... More

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Rising in the mountains of the Tibetan border, the symbolic heart of China pierces 3,900 miles of rugged country before debouching into the oily ... More

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The award-winning "Catfish and Mandala" is the poignant, lyrical tale of an American odyssey--a solo bicycle voyage around the Pacific Rim to Vietnam ... More

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This account of one woman's journey into Tibet in the 1920s has become a classic of both travel and spiritual literature. Her accounts of the monks, ... More

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Since its publication in 1970, many students, travelers, business people, and other interested readers have found this one-volume work an ideal ... More

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