CENTRAL & EAST ASIA
Kyrgyzstan   |   READING AND TRAVEL GUIDE

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Essential Books These 4 items are available for $68, including
U.S. shipping, a 15% discount (Item no. EXCAS55)		  
Odyssey Guide Kyrgyz Republic  •  Rowan Stewart  •  Susie Weldon
GUIDEBOOK •  2008 •  PAPER  • 318 PAGES
A comprehensive travel guide to the Kyrgyz Republic, the first in English. With a concise cultural, historical and social background, photographs, maps and language guide. Second edition. (CAS47, $24.95)		   Odyssey Guide Kyrgyz Republic
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
The Lost Heart of Asia  •  Colin Thubron
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •  2008 •  PAPER  • 374 PAGES
The intrepid Colin Thubron recounts his travels to Samarkand, Bukhara and throughout Central Asia in the early 1990s, in the wake of the breakup of the Soviet Union, in this thrilling travelogue. A fine writer, intrepid traveler and insightful observer, he's an outstanding guide to the history, people and culture of this complex corner of the world. (CAS07, $15.99)		   The Lost Heart of Asia
Central Asia Map  •  Nelles
2011 •  MAP
An up-to-date, double-sided shaded relief map of Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Krygystan at the very good scale of 1:1,750,000. With inset plans of major cities. Two Sides. 20x36 inches. (CAS37, $13.95)		   Central Asia Map



Also Recommended

Silk Road Countries Map, Central Asia  •  Gizi Map    •  A map covering the Silk Roads and surrounding territories from Western China and India across Asia to Saudi Arabia, Turkey and the Black Sea at a scale of 1:3,000,000. (CAS100, $15.95)
 		  
Bradt Guide Kyrgyzstan  •  Laurence Mitchell   • GUIDEBOOK  •  An outstanding guide to the country, its people, history and allure in the pioneering British series. With a strong focus on adventure activities and a section of suggested overland routes to China, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. (CAS154, $26.99)
 		  
Kyrgyzstan, A Climbers Map & Guide  •  Alpine Mapping Guild   • GUIDEBOOK  •  With satellite-based shaded-relief maps of the Karavshin Valley ( 1:200,000), Western Kokshaal-Too in the Tien Shan (1:150,000) and a topo map of the Ala-Archa National Park (1:50,000), along with trekking information. (CAS174, $12.95)
 		  
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)
 		  
Empires of the Silk Road  •  Christopher I. Beckwith   • HISTORY • NEW  •  Beckwith rescues Central Asia from the periphery of world affairs with flair and scholarship, showing the sweep of empire, trade and cultural life over the millennia. (CAS171, $16.95)
 		  
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)
 		  
The New Great Game, Blood and Oil in Central Asia  •  Lutz Kleveman   • HISTORY  •  An eyewitness account of current policies and conflicts in Caucasus and Central Asia, full of interviews, anecdote, history and polemic. (CAS112, $15.00)
 		  
Eric Shipton, The Six Mountain Travel Books  •  Eric Shipton   • EXPLORATION  •  Shipton's extraordinary adventures in the mountains of the Himalayas, East Africa, Central Asia and Patagonia, now in paper. (EXP12, $34.95)
 		  
Islamic Arts  •  Jonathan Bloom  •  Sheila Blair   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  With color photographs, maps and site plans, throughout this survey of 1,000 years of Islamic architecture, design and decoration is a wonderfully illuminating, stimulating introduction tot he subject for anyone with an interest in art. (ISL01, $29.95)
 		  
Fly-Fishing the 41st, From Connecticut to Mongolia and Home Again  •  James Prosek   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  Certainly the fisherman in your house has heard of the multi-talented James Prosek (Trout, An Illustrated History), whose finely detailed paintings are as breathtaking as they are accurate. In this travelogue, Prosek sets out East from Easton, Connecticut on a clockwise trip around the world, stopping en route to see friends, visit monuments (the Alhambra) and, not incidentally, to fish, taking in Spain, Greece, Turkey, Armenia, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, China and Japan. (FSH09, $14.95)
 		  
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World  •  Jack Weatherford   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  Weatherford, who has lived and studied in Mongolia, interweaves his own travels and field work on the Central Asian steppes, much of it on horseback, with a lively portrait of Genghis Khan and the world of the medieval Mongols. The Mongols introduced not only mayhem, but also paper, printing, gunpowder, the compass and trousers to their far-flung empire. (CAS106, $15.00)
 		  
Hunted Through Central Asia, On the Run from Lenin's Secret Police  •  Paul Nazaroff  •  Peter Hopkirk   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  A Russian geologist turned anti-Bolshevik, Nazaroff writes of thrilling adventure, living among ordinary Muslims and dodging authorities across Kyrgyzstan in 1918. (CAS08, $29.95)
 		  
Shadow of the Silk Road  •  Colin Thubron   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  Thubron returns to Central Asia in this lyrical, erudite account of a 7,000-mile trek across Asia, visiting archaeological sites, people and cities from Xi'an and Dunhuang to Samarkand, Bukhara, Afghanistan and Iran. (CAS133, $15.99)
 		  
The Golden Horde, From the Himalaya to the Mediterranean  •  Sheila Paine   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  Paine travels in the footsteps of merchants and armies through the lands of Genghis Khan's Golden Horde and into Soviet Central Asia -- Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and into the wild Tien Shan in this thrilling tale of adventure. (CAS163, $19.95)
 		  
The Day Lasts More than a Hundred Years  •  Chingiz Aitmatov   • LITERATURE  •  First published in 1980 under the Soviet regime, this novel by a famous Kyrgyz writer mixes the story of a man traveling through the steppes to bury a friend and the tale of two cosmonauts aboard a space station. (CAS139, $20.95)
 		  
Glacier Ice  •  Austin Post  •  Edward R. LaChapelle   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  A classic book of extraordinary black-and-white aerial photographs of mountains and glaciers by two devoted men of ice. Ed LaChapelle's text is paired with Austin Post's stunning aerial photographs of glaciers from Alaska and Chile to Switzerland, the Himalayas and other parts of the world. (SCI07, $27.95)
 		  
 
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