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Essential Books These 4 items are available for $78, including
U.S. shipping, a 15% discount (Item no. EXCAS54)		  
Odyssey Guide Kazakhstan  •  Dagmar Schreiber
GUIDEBOOK •  2010 •  PAPER  • 576 PAGES
A fully illustrated guide to the Central Asian nation, with essays on history, culture, architecture and nature, and plenty of practicalities. (CAS156, $34.95)		   Odyssey Guide Kazakhstan
Apples are from Kazakhstan  •  Christopher Robbins
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •  2010 •  PAPER  • 304 PAGES
Yes, apples do come from Kazakhstan. Tulips too. Christopher Robbins writes winningly of the country and its people in this rich cultural portrait of a remarkable country the size of Western Europe, sealed off from the world for the last 100 years by the Tsars and then Soviet Russia. (CAS160, $15.00)		   Apples are from Kazakhstan
The Great Game  •  Peter Hopkirk
HISTORY •  1994 •  PAPER  • 565 PAGES • FAVORITE • HARD TO FIND ELSEWHERE
A spellbinding, vivid, and riveting account of the great European struggle for supremacy in Central Asia. This is a romantic, glamorous tale of intrigue, treachery and adventure that takes us over the high mountain passes and through the scorching deserts and caravan towns of the Silk Road. With meticulous scholarship and on-the-spot research, the author describes the history of this region at the core of geopolitics today. With 39 photographs and fine maps. (CAS09, $18.00)		   The Great Game
Kazakhstan Map  •  Gizi Map
2002 •  MAP
An excellently detailed map of Kazakhstan and surrounding Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan at a scale of 1:3,000,000. One Side. 35x47 inches. (CAS107, $15.95)		   Kazakhstan Map



Also Recommended

Central Asia Map  •  Nelles    •  An up-to-date, double-sided shaded relief map at a scale of 1:1,750,000. (CAS37, $13.95)
 		  
Northwest China Map  •  MapLink    •  This bird's-eye map takes in the region from Dunhuang west across the Taklamakan to Almaty, Bishkek and the Pamirs. With shaded relief, archaeological sites, roads, tracks and paths, railroads and trade routes. (CHN202, $9.95)
 		  
A Hedonist's Guide to Almaty and Astana  •  Lucy Kelaart   • GUIDEBOOK  •  The pocket guide with plenty of information on where to go and what to do covers Kazakhstan's capitals with style. (CAS158, $18.95)
 		  
Lonely Planet Central Asia  •  Lonely Planet   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A comprehensive, detailed guide to travel in the region, including Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. (CAS42, $32.99)
 		  
Lonely Planet Central Asia Phrasebook  •  Justin Jon Rudelson   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A handy pocket phrasebook, which focuses on pronunciation, basic grammar and essential vocabulary for the traveler on the Silk Road. (CAS38, $8.99)
 		  
A History of Inner Asia  •  Svat Soucek   • HISTORY  •  A dense, informative survey of the changing fortunes of people in the region, with chapters on Arab conquest and Chinese expansion, Mongols, Samanids, Timurids, Uzbeks, and other kingdoms and people in the region, including the 17th-19th century development of the trading cities. With 13 maps and dynastic charts. (CAS51, $39.99)
 		  
Genghis Khan, His Life and Legacy  •  Paul Ratchnevsky  •  Thomas Nivison Haining   • HISTORY  •  This scholarly biography of the 12th-century conqueror, ably translated from the German, offers great insight into life on the steppes of Central Asia and expansion of the Mongol empire. With illustrations, maps, chronology and dynastic tables and a new introduction. (MGL24, $36.95)
 		  
Kazakhstan, Unfulfilled Promise  •  Martha Brill Olcott   • HISTORY  •  This revised edition of Carneigie scholar Ott's report on independent Kazakthan, brings up to date changes since 2000, centering on issues between the Slavic north and the Islamic south. (CAS176, $24.95)
 		  
Kosmos, A Portrait of the Russian Space Age  •  Svetlana Boym  •  Adam Bartos   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  A portfolio of 100 photographs of the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, with an essay by Harvard professor Svetlana Boym. (RUS184, $40.00)
 		  
Murderers in Mausoleums  •  Jeffrey Tayler   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • NEW  •  Tayler's riveting account of a three-month, 7,000-mile odyssey from Moscow to Beijing, through mighty Kazakhstan, across the Silk Road to Kashgar, Urumqi and onto Beijing, illuminates the red-hot geopolitics of Central Asia. (CAS168, $24.00)
 		  
Religions of the Silk Road  •  Richard C. Foltz   • RELIGION  •  A scholarly survey of cultural traditions, and especially religions, along the trade routes through China and Central Asia from antiquity to the 15th century. (CAS52, $27.00)
 		  
Sons of the Conquerors, The Rise of the Turkic World  •  Hugh Pope   • HISTORY  •  A lively, illuminating report on the Turkic speaking lands across Inner Asia from westernmost China to the Black Sea. (TKY104, $19.95)
 		  
Hundred Thousand Fools of God  •  Theodore Levin   • MUSIC  •  An engaging account of adventures in ethnomusicology in contemporary Central Asia, Levin is a wonderful guide to musical traditions in Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. With an accompanying CD featuring the traditional music of Central Asia. (CAS59, $29.95)
 		  
In the Empire of Genghis Khan, A Journey Among Nomads  •  Stanley Stewart   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  Mixing anecdote and history, Stewart captures the warmth and spirit of people he encountered in this spirited tale of an epic journey across Eurasia, much of it on horseback, to Mongolia. (MGL40, $14.95)
 		  
In Xanadu, A Quest  •  William Dalrymple   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  An intrepid traveler and entertaining writer, Dalrymple offers an anecdotal history of the people and places he encounters en route on this epic journey in the footsteps of Marco Polo across Central Asia to China. (CAS50, $18.95)
 		  
Khubilai Khan, His Life and Times  •  Morris Rossabi   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  This fascinating, scholarly portrait of the culture and politics of 13th-century Asia examines Khubilai Khan's rise to power, the submission of Korea and the attempted invasion of Japan. (CAS10, $24.95)
 		  
The Lost Heart of Asia  •  Colin Thubron   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  In this classic account, Thubron recounts his travels to Samarkand, Bukhara and throughout Central Asia in the wake of the breakup of the Soviet Union. A fine writer, intrepid traveler and insightful observer, he's an outstanding guide to the history, people and culture of the region. (CAS07, $15.99)
 		  
The Rise and Rule of Tamerlane  •  Beatrice Forbes Manz   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  A portrait of the great nomadic conqueror who rose to power in 1370 on the ruins of the Mongol Empire and led campaigns from Moscow to Delhi. (CAS11, $29.99)
 		  
 
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