WILDERNESS TRAVEL
Great Silk Road   |   READING AND TRAVEL GUIDE

Here's a page from Longitude, the specialty bookseller for travelers. To order online, and to see the latest, most comprehensive selection of books and maps, go to http://reading.longitudebooks.com/B49810. You may also call 800-342-2164 to order or request a catalog.


Essential Books These 6 items are available for $111, including
U.S. shipping, a 15% discount (Item no. EXCAS45)		  
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)		   Odyssey Guide The Silk Road, Xi'an to Kashgar
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
Life Along the Silk Road  •  Susan Whitfield
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •  2001 •  PAPER  • 253 PAGES
With insight, scholarship and dramatic flair, Susan Whitfield recounts the lives of ten individuals on the ancient Silk Road. Spanning the eighth to tenth centuries, she draws on surviving manuscripts and firsthand accounts in this vivid, entertaining portrait of everyday life in China and Central Asia. Whitfield is director of the International Dunhuang Project. (CAS44, $24.95)		   Life Along the Silk Road
Along the Silk Road  •  Elizabeth ten Grotenhuis
ART & ARCHITECTURE •  2002 •  PAPER  • 144 PAGES
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. Additional contributors include musicologist Theodore Levin, textile-expert Elizabeth Barber, and photographer Kenro Izu. Volume 6 in the Asian Art & Culture series published in conjunction with the Silk Road Project and the Freer Gallery of Art. (CAS78, $24.95)		   Along the Silk Road
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
China North Map  •  Nelles
MAP
A detailed travel map of North China at a 1:1,750,000 scale. It covers Xinjing to Beijing, with city maps of Tianjin and Beijing and inset maps of the areas around Beijing and Xi'an. Two Sides. 20x40 inches. (CHN40, $13.95)		   China North Map



Also Recommended

China Adventure Map  •  National Geographic    •  A double-sided, full-color map of China, at a useful scale of 1:4,375,000, which shows roads and cities. Printed on tear- and water-reistant paper. (CHN06, $11.95)
 		  
The Ancient Silk Road, An Illustrated Map  •  Odyssey Maps    •  Three large annotated color maps, dozens of photographs and expert commentary illustrate sites across the Silk Road from China across Central Asia, the Middle East and Asia Minor. (ASA58, $14.95)
 		  
Culture Smart! China  •  Kathy Flower   • GUIDEBOOK  •  Take along this handy guide to local customs, etiquette and culture. (CHN434, $9.95)
 		  
Eyewitness Top 10 Beijing  •  Eyewitness Guides   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A compact, illustrated guide in the popular series, featuring favorite attractions in Beijing. (CHN427, $14.00)
 		  
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)
 		  
Odyssey Guide Xi'an, Shaanxi & the Terracotta Army  •  Kevin Bishop   • GUIDEBOOK  •  With color photographs, insightful essays on culture and history, site plans and places of interest in and around China's ancient capital. (CHN34, $24.95)
 		  
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)
 		  
Foreign Devils on the Silk Road  •  Peter Hopkirk   • HISTORY  •  Hopkirk's rousing tale of Sven Hedin and other larger-than-life archaeological raiders of the early 20th century captures the excitement of discovery -- and the glories of the Silk Road. (CAS22, $24.95)
 		  
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)
 		  
Silk Road: Monks, Warriors & Merchants on the Silk Road  •  Luce Boulnois  •  Helen Loveday   • HISTORY • COMING IN JULY  •  A history and guide to the Silk Road, organized chronologically and featuring a nice selection of contemporary photographs. (CAS111, $27.95)
 		  
The Forbidden City  •  Geremie R. Barme  •  Mary Beard   • HISTORY  •  A compact, elegant volume in Harvard's excellent Wonders of the World series, this pocket history illuminates the culture, mystique, architecture and politics of imperial Beijing. Fittingly, the book opens with Mao's symbolic address from the Gate of Heavenly Peace. (CHN468, $14.95)
 		  
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, $15.95)
 		  
The Silk Road, Two Thousand Years in the Heart of Asia  •  Frances Wood   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  Wood draws on hundreds of archival photographs, manuscripts and paintings from the British Library in telling this lively story of the art, culture and history of diverse trade routes. With chapters on jade and silk, trade during the Han Dynasty, Dunhuang, the Great Game, explorers and the Silk Road today. (ASA36, $28.95)
 		  
The Spice Route, A History  •  John Keay   • HISTORY  •  John Keay draws on ancient logs, traveler's accounts and maps for this rousing history of trade in cinnamon, clove, nutmeg, pepper, gums, resins and other costly goods from antiquity to the 17th century. (ASA52, $24.95)
 		  
The Terracotta Army of the First Emperor of China  •  William Lindesay   • HISTORY  •  Lindesay augments colorful illustrations and photographs with detailed captions in this concise visual overview of the extraordinary tomb of Qin Shi Huangdi, First Emperor of China. (CHN126, $12.95)
 		  
The Arts of China  •  Michael Sullivan   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  A lively survey of Chinese visual arts and culture through the ages, thoroughly illustrated and accessible. With a new chapter on the 20th century and beyond, this fifth edition covers bronzes, ceramics, painting and architecture from the Neolithic to now. (CHN16, $39.95)
 		  
The Caves of Dunhuang  •  Fan Jinshi   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  This richly illustrated survey presents the ancient murals, silks, manuscripts and other treasures within the 50 extraordinary cave temples of Mogao, used as a monastery for a millennium. With 350 color photographs. (CHN534, $70.00)
 		  
A Carpet Ride to Khiva, Seven Years on the Silk Road  •  Christopher Aslan Alexander   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  Alexander writes of a remarkable project to set up a carpet workshop in Medieval Khiva, bringing back ancient traditions, dying tecniques and, not incidentally, providing work for local Uzbek women in this affecting account. (CAS192, $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)
 		  
News from Tartary  •  Peter Fleming   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  Fleming's rousing account of a 3,500-mile jaunt from Peking to Sinkiang and on to India, a classic of imperial British wit and style. (CAS46, $18.95)
 		  
Night Train to Turkistan: Modern Adventures Along China's Ancient Silk Road  •  Stuart Stevens   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  An entertaining account of hard travel from Beijing to Kashgar, following the route of Peter Fleming and his classic News From Tartary. (CAS77, $13.00)
 		  
Out of Steppe, The Lost Peoples of Central Asia  •  Daniel Metcalfe   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  Metcalfe journeys throughout the five stans, Pakistan and Afghanistan in search of the Jews of Bukhara, Karalpaks, Hazaras, Kalashas. Yaghnobis and other threatened ethnic people of the steppes for this erudite, illuminating report from the field. (CAS191, $16.95)
 		  
Riding the Iron Rooster  •  Paul Theroux   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  A wry account an utterly exhausting, exasperating travels, mostly by rail, throughout China for an entire year. Theroux gets himself to every corner of the huge country and includes memorable passages on his experiences in Mongolia, Xinjiang, Manchuria and Tibet (where his journey ended). (CHN133, $15.95)
 		  
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 Travels of Marco Polo  •  Marco Polo  •  Ronald Lantham   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  The memories of a 13th-century journey to China along the Silk Road, among the most famous travel accounts ever. Describing exotic plants, birds, precious gems, silks, and spices with a merchant's eye, this superb geographer recounts his 20 years of travel. (CAS05, $15.00)
 		  
Flashman in the Great Game  •  George MacDonald Fraser   • LITERATURE  •  What caused the Sepoy Mutiny, a pivotal moment in the Raj? How about Harry Flashman, the reluctant, much-decorated coward, cad and womanizer at the center of George MacDonald Fraser's wildly entertaining, irreverent series of historical novels. (CAS120, $16.00)
 		  
A Field Guide to the Birds of China  •  John MacKinnon  •  Karen Phillipps   • FIELD GUIDE  •  A comprehensive field guide to the birds of China, featuring 128 color plates illustrating 1,300 species of birds. Contains introductory chapters on the history of ornithology in China, biogeography, and conservation. (CHN85, $124.00)
 		  
 
www.longitudebooks.com     (800) 342-2164      115 West 30th St., Suite 1206    New York, NY 10001