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	Odyssey Guide The Silk Road, Xi'an to Kashgar  •  Judy Bonavia GUIDEBOOK •  2008 •  PAPER  • 352 PAGES A comprehensive guide to China's Silk Road with color photographs, excellent maps and much historical information. This handy book includes separate essays on the history and culture of the area, excerpts from the literature, a brief Chinese phrasebook, and a province-by-province description of points of interest. (CAS13, $24.95)
	K2, Triumph and Tragedy  •  Jim Curran EXPLORATION •  1997 •  PAPER This is a tense account of disaster on the world's second highest mountain in 1986. The author was on the mountain when 13 climbers in 9 different expeditions died. (PKN05, $15.00)
	Foreign Devils on the Silk Road  •  Peter Hopkirk HISTORY •  1984 •  PAPER  • 252 PAGES Hopkirk tackles the history of the Chinese Silk Road in his inimitable style, especially the exploits of Sven Hedin and five other archaeological raiders of the early years of the 20th century. Accurate, vividly written and great fun. (CAS22, $24.95)
	Northwest China Map  •   MapLink 2002 •  MAP A map of northwestern China, covering much of the Silk Road at a scale of 1:2,000,000. Entitled Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, the map takes in the region from Dunhuang west across the Taklamakan to Almaty, Bishkek and the Pamirs. With full color shaded relief, archaeological sites, roads, tracks and paths, railroads and trade routes. An index is printed on the reverse with entries for China (mostly) along with bordering regions of Afghanistan, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgystan, Mongolia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. A Maplink map with cartography by Gizimaps. (CHN202, $9.95)

	Altitude Illness: Prevention and Treatment, How to Stay Healthy at Altitude  •  Stephen Bezruchka   • REFERENCE  •  This useful reference book provides essential information concerning the prevention and treatment of altitude sickness. (REF02, $8.95)
	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)
	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, $21.95)
	The Bazaar, Markets and Merchants of the Islamic World  •  Walter Weiss  •  Kurt-Michael Westermann   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  A celebration of bazaars throughout the Islamic world. Apart from the hundreds of color photos, it includes a history of caravan trade, an overview of the setup of medinas, and portraits of bazaars from Marrakech to Samarkand. (CAS36, $50.00)
	The Forbidden City, Center of Imperial China  •  Gilles Beguin  •  Dominique Morel   • HISTORY  •  This slim volume is packed with maps, archival photographs and illustrations. With a useful chronology and a carefully chosen selection of writings over the ages, it's an indispensable guide to the Forbidden City and the history of imperial China. (CHN32, $12.95)
	The Great Game, The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia  •  Peter Hopkirk   • HISTORY • FAVORITE • HARD TO FIND ELSEWHERE  •  A spellbinding account of the great European struggle for supremacy in Central Asia. This romantic, glamorous history of intrigue, treachery and adventure, is among our perennial bestsellers. Hopkirk is a master storyteller -- and his book is terrific. (CAS09, $18.00)
	The Silk Road, Two Thousand Years in the Heart of Asia  •  Frances Wood   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  A nicely illustrated overview of the art, culture and history of the Silk Road, largely drawn from the collections of the British Library. Includes chapters on jade and silk, trade during the Han dynasty, the Great Game, and the Silk Road today. (ASA36, $21.95)
	War at the Top of the World, The Struggle for Afghanistan, Kashmir, and Tibet  •  Eric Margolis   • HISTORY  •  An overview of geography, religion and politics of the High Himalayas, and its strategic value to Pakistan, India and China. Updated throughout in this second edition, with a new chapter on the Taliban. (PKN09, $25.95)
	World Religions: Eastern Traditions  •  Willard G. Oxtoby   • RELIGION  •  A clear and insightful introduction to Eastern religions by a team of scholars, covering Hindu, Jain, Sikh, Buddhist and East Asian traditions. Scholarly, but still rewarding for the general reader. (ASA07, $62.95)
	Along the Silk Road  •  Elizabeth ten Grotenhuis   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  A nicely illustrated collection of essays on the art, culture and music of the Silk Road with contributions by art historian ten Grotenhuis (who edited the volume), Yo-Yo Ma and others associated with the Silk Road Project. (CAS78, $24.95)
	The Mummies of Urumchi  •  Elizabeth Wayland Barber   • ARCHAEOLOGY  •  An overview of the culture of ancient people of the Silk Road based on the extraordinarily well preserved Caucasoid mummies unearthed in Urumchi in the Tarim Basin of Central Asia. (CAS34, $18.95)
	The Silk Road, Art and History  •  Jonathan Tucker  •  Antonia Tozer   • ART & ARCHITECTURE • OUT OF PRINT  •  Tucker, a specialist in Asian Art, interweaves history, exploration, culture, art, archaeology and literature in this richly illustrated celebration of the ancient Silk Road from Xi'an to Rome. Organized geographically and brimming with maps, it's an essential reference to the complex geography, art and history of the region. (CAS98, $65.00)
	Life Along the Silk Road  •  Susan Whitfield   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  With insight, scholarship and dramatic flair, Susan Whitfield recounts the lives of ten individuals on the ancient Silk Road. A vivid, entertaining portrait of everyday life in eighth-, ninth- and tenth-century China and Central Asia. (CAS44, $18.95)
	My Life as an Explorer  •  Sven Hedin  •  Peter Hopkirk   • EXPLORATION  •  This classic memoir by the great Swedish explorer is an amazing account of hardship and adventure over three decades through the lands of Central Asia and the Silk Road. (CAS06, $16.00)
	News from Tartary  •  Peter Fleming   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  A rousing, ironic account of Fleming's 3500-mile trek in the 1930s from Peking to the province of Sinkiang and onwards to India. (CAS46, $18.95)
	Savage Summit: The True Stories of the First Five Women Who Climbed K2, the World's Most Feared Mountain  •  Jennifer Jordan   • EXPLORATION  •  The stories of five women who made it to the top of K2 from 1986 to 1995, told in order of their summits: Wanda Rutkiewicz, Liliane Barrard, Julie Tullis, Chantal Mauduit and Alison Hargreaves. (HML68, $24.95)
	The Mountains of My Life  •  Walter Bonatti   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  The candid memoir of the great Italian climber and his adventures in the Alps, the Himalayas, and South America, including Bonatti's account of what happened on the summit of K2 in 1954. (ALP25, $16.95)
	Mountain Light, In Search of the Dynamic Landscape  •  Galen Rowell   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  Rowell presents 80 of his most spectacular mountain images, divided according to visual content. Each chapter illustrates a theme or technique, supplemented by a short personal essay. (PHT06, $29.95)
	A Photographic Guide to the Birds of India and Nepal  •  B. Grewal   • FIELD GUIDE  •  A slim pocket guide to 252 of the most conspicuous birds of India and Nepal. (IDA46, $15.95)
	Concise Flowers of the Himalaya  •  Oleg Polunin  •  Adam Stainton   • FIELD GUIDE • OUT OF PRINT  •  A condensed version of the classic Flowers of the Himalayas featuring the same 700 color photographs and 315 line drawings but with shorter descriptive information. (HML17, $25.00)
	Photographic Guide to Birds of the Himalayas  •  B. Grewal   • FIELD GUIDE  •  A pocket guide to 250 birds found from the foothills up to high elevations ranging from the Hindu Kush and Kashmir to Arunachal Pradesh in the Eastern Himalayas. With brief descriptive information, maps and 260 full-color illustrations. (HML31, $15.95)

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