Author: Peter FlemingPublisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 9780810160712
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
The story of a seven-month journey taken in 1935 from Peking to Kashmir.
Eastward to Tartary
Author: Robert D. KaplanPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0804153477
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Eastward to Tartary, Robert Kaplan's first book to focus on a single region since his bestselling Balkan Ghosts, introduces readers to an explosive and little-known part of the world destined to become a tinderbox of the future. Kaplan takes us on a spellbinding journey into the heart of a volatile region, stretching from Hungary and Romania to the far shores of the oil-rich Caspian Sea. Through dramatic stories of unforgettable characters, Kaplan illuminates the tragic history of this unstable area that he describes as the new fault line between East and West. He ventures from Turkey, Syria, and Israel to the turbulent countries of the Caucasus, from the newly rich city of Baku to the deserts of Turkmenistan and the killing fields of Armenia. The result is must reading for anyone concerned about the state of our world in the decades to come.
Author: Evariste Régis HucBrazilian Adventure
Author: Peter FlemingPublisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 9780810160651
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
In 1932 Peter Fleming, a literary editor, engaged to search for missing English explorer Colonel P.H. Fawcett, lost in tributary of the Amazon, with the hardships of meager supplies, faulty maps, and a pack of rival newspaper-men on their trail.
The Silk Road
Author: Frances WoodPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520237865
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
This gorgeously illustrated oversized book brings the history and cultures of the Silk Road alive -- from its beginnings to the present day -- covering more than 5000 years.
Literature of Travel and Exploration
Author: Jennifer SpeakePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135456631
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 1425
Book Description
Containing more than 600 entries, this valuable resource presents all aspects of travel writing. There are entries on places and routes (Afghanistan, Black Sea, Egypt, Gobi Desert, Hawaii, Himalayas, Italy, Northwest Passage, Samarkand, Silk Route, Timbuktu), writers (Isabella Bird, Ibn Battuta, Bruce Chatwin, Gustave Flaubert, Mary Kingsley, Walter Ralegh, Wilfrid Thesiger), methods of transport and types of journey (balloon, camel, grand tour, hunting and big game expeditions, pilgrimage, space travel and exploration), genres (buccaneer narratives, guidebooks, New World chronicles, postcards), companies and societies (East India Company, Royal Geographical Society, Society of Dilettanti), and issues and themes (censorship, exile, orientalism, and tourism). For a full list of entries and contributors, a generous selection of sample entries, and more, visit the Literature of Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopedia website.
Author: Peter FlemingCulture and Customs of the Central Asian Republics
Author: Rafis AbazovPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313056188
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
The Central Asian Republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan won their independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. Now they are emerging from the shadow of dominance and are subjects of intense interest from the West. The modern culture and customs of the various peoples in these geopolitical hotspots, straddling the far reaches of Europe into Asia, are revealed to a general audience for the first time. This will be the must-have volume for a broad, authoritative overview of these traditional civilizations as they cope with globalization.
Author: Alexander Burnes
Author: Fernão Mendes Pinto