Books, Travel, Asia, General

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Into Thin Air
by Random House Audio Price-less (Audio Cassette) (Release Date: 2004-10-26)

Rory Stewart
Places in Between
by PICADOR (MACM) (Paperback)

Paul Theroux
Ghost Train to the Eastern Star: On the Tracks of the Great Railway Bazaar
by Houghton Mifflin (Hardcover)

Peter Matthiessen
The Snow Leopard (Harvill Panther)
by The Harvill Press (Paperback)

Rob Gifford
China Road
by Blackstone Audio Inc. (MP3 CD) (Release Date: 2007-06-01)

National Public Radio's Beijing correspondent Rob Gifford recounts his travels along Route 312, the Chinese Mother Road, the longest route in the world's most populous nation. Based on his successful NPR radio series, China Road draws on Gifford's twenty years of observing first-hand this rapidly transforming country, as he travels east to west, from Shanghai to China's border with Kazakhstan. As he takes the reader on this journey, he will also take us through China's past and present while he tries to make sense of this complex nation's potential future.

Suketu Mehta
Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found
by Headline Review (Paperback)

Colin Thubron
Shadow of the Silk Road
by Chatto & Windus (Hardcover) (Release Date: 2006-10-24)

There was never one Silk Road -- but several. The route chosen by Colin Thubron passes through China, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan, Iran and Turkey, taking in the most sterile desert on earth (the Taklamakan) and the strife-torn mountain valleys of today's conflicts, as he travels from the tomb of the Yellow Emperor (the mythic progenitor of the Chinese people) to the ancient port of Antioch, by local bus, truck, car -- occasionally Landrover, horse or camel. He covers 7,000 miles in 8 months, and confesses that it is the most difficult, complex and ambitious journey he has undertaken in 40 years of travel.The Silk Road is a huge network of arteries and veins, splitting and converging across the breadth of Asia. Chinese silk has turned up in the hair of a 10th-century-BC Egyptian mummy; equally, the tartan plaids of 3000-year-old mummies in the Chinese desert echo those of early Celts. To be travelling the Silk Road, writes Colin Thubron, is to be travelling the history of ...

Peter Hessler
River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze
by John Murray Publishers Ltd (Paperback)

China Williams, Aaron Anderson, Brett Atkinson, Tim Bewer, ...
Thailand (Country Guide)
by Lonely Planet (Paperback)

Discover Thailand Uncover Bangkok's best street stalls or enjoy skyscraping gourmet dinners. Climb aboard a long-tail boat and island hop to your own isolated beach paradise. Get soaked at Songkran, the Thai celebration that becomes the world's biggest water fight. Trek off the beaten path in remote Isan to watch a rare solar alignment at an ancient Angkor temple. In This Guide: Ten authors, 259 days of in-country research and 150 maps. Trek, dive or monkey-watch with our detailed coverage of national parks and natural wonders. Visit lonelyplanet.com for up-to-the-minute reviews, updates and traveler suggestions.

Sarina Singh, Joe Bindloss, Rafael Wlodarski, Amy Karafin, ...
India (Country Guide)
by Lonely Planet (Paperback)

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