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In Siberia
A few years ago it bacame possible for a foreigner to travel Siberia almost at will. This is the account of the author's 15,000-mile journey through this astonishing country, one...
The Cautious Traveller's Guide to The Wastelands: THE INSTANT SUNDAY
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Breathtaking' Samantha Shannon 'Sit back and enjoy the ride' Daily Mail 'Wonderful' Jennifer Saint It is said there is a price that every passenger must...
The Escape from Kabul: A True Story of Sisterhood and Defiance
Combining moment-by-moment drama with an emotional story of friendship and bravery, The Escape from Kabul is also a searing insight into the captive fate of women in Afghanistan. In the...
Lonely Planet Trans-Siberian Railway
Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher Lonely Planet Trans-Siberian Railway is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden...
The Muslim Question and Russian Imperial Governance
From the time of the Crimean War through the fall of the Tsar, the question of what to do about the Russian empire's large Muslim population was a highly contested...
Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures
Priceless treasures hidden for almost 30 years illustrate Afghanistan's key place at the crossroads of Europe, the Middle East, and Asia, along the Silk Road--a rich cultural heritage that will...
Cycling to Xian
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The book titled Cycling to Xian by the author Michael Buckley. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Objects of Translation: Material Culture and Medieval "Hindu-Muslim"
$160.00 AUD
Offers an approach to the entanglements of medieval elites in the regions that comprise Afghanistan, Pakistan, and north India. This book - which ranges in time from the early eighth...
Afghanistan: Forging Civilizations Along the Silk Road
$120.00 AUD
During its early history, Afghanistan was a crossroads of commerce from diverse cultures along its bustling trade routes, known as the "Silk Road", which stretched from China to Egypt. This...
Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia
Shrouding themselves and their aims in deepest secrecy, the leaders of the Taliban movement control Afghanistan with an inflexible, crushing fundamentalism. The most extreme and radical of all Islamic organizations,...
Little America: The War within the War for Afghanistan
The US Government invested millions in Helmand in the 1950s and '60s to transform the barren desert into a veritable oasis - known locally as 'Little America' - and then...
Sovietistan: A Journey Through Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan,
"A mesmerising trip across Central Asia . . . A fascinating travelogue" Financial Times SHORTLISTED FOR EDWARD STANFORD/LONELY PLANET DEBUT TRAVEL WRITER OF THE YEAR 2020 An unforgettable journey through...
The Man Who Loved Siberia
Siberia, to me, is a fairy-tale land. Fritz Dorries set out on his first trip to Eastern Siberia in 1877, when there were still blank spaces on maps of the...
Ghosts of Afghanistan: Hard Truths and Foreign Myths
Yes, there are dozens of books on the Afghan wars. Most of them are all about firefights and heroics. But this is the first to take the events of the...
The Lost Pianos of Siberia: A Sunday Times Book of 2020
Fusing history, nature writing and travelogue, The Lost Pianos of Siberia is a captivating exploration of an extraordinary and largely unknown part of the world and its unexpected musical legacy....
Through Khiva to Golden Samarkand: A John Murray Journey
INTRODUCED BY CAROLINE EDEN, award-winning author of Black Sea, Red Sands and Samarkand 'Medieval pomp, splendour, and picturesqueness... a life that one can hardly even realize.' In 1912, Ella R....
In a Land Far from Home: A John Murray Journey
WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY TARAN KHAN, author of Shadow City TRANSLATED FROM BENGALI BY NAZES AFROZ An intrepid traveller and true cosmopolitan, legendary Bengali writer Syed Mujtaba Ali spent...
Escape from Kabul: The Inside Story
Afghanistan, August 2021. As the clock ticks down to a total Allied withdrawal and the Taliban go door to door to execute 'collaborators', a small, semi-official force of allied Paratroopers...
The Finest Hotel in Kabul: A People's History of Afghanistan
The story of a hotel. The story of a nation. When the Inter-Continental Kabul opened in 1969, Afghanistan's first luxury hotel symbolised a dream of a modernising country connected to...
Resurrection
Tolstoy's most controversial novel is the dramatic tale of a remorseful nobleman who seeks redemption after a woman he once wronged is convicted of murder - only to discover a...
The Rose Field: The Book of Dust Volume Three
The long-awaited and highly anticipated conclusion to Philip Pullman's bestselling The Book of Dust sequence. 'Lyra- what will you do when you find this place in the desert, the opening...
Our Woman In Kabul
Irris Makler set out alone to cover a war in Afghanistan and found a much bigger story about the women behind enemy lines. This is as much their story as...
Three Cups of Tea: Young Readers Edition: One Man's Journey to Change
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With the first cup of tea, you are a stranger. With the second ...a friend. With the third cup of tea, you are family. One day Greg Mortenson set out...
Ground Truth: 3 Para Return to Afghanistan
Afghanistan, 2008. After their eighteen-month epic tour of Helmand Province, the troops of 3 Para are back. This time, the weight of experience weighs heavily on their shoulders. In April...
War & Peace & War: Twenty years in Afghanistan
'Andrew North has a deep empathy and understanding for Afghanistan and has seen sides of it - both good and horrifying - that very few international observers have encountered' -...
The Rescue: The True Story of the SAS Mission to Save Hostages from
The thrilling retelling of a real-life hostage rescue mission, by SAS hero and million-selling author, Andy McNab. It is 2012 and in Northern Afghanistan, an international crisis has erupted. A...
Afgantsy: The Russians in Afghanistan, 1979-89
As a former ambassador to Moscow, Rodric Braithwaite brings unique insights to the Soviet War in Afghanistan. The story has been distorted not only by Cold War propaganda but also...
Against the Law
A special forces agent-turned-strip club bouncer with a side hustle as a hitman for the New York mob seeks out a deadly drug lord in the poppy fields of Afghanistan....
The Seventh Circle: A Former Australian Soldier's Extraordinary Story
'I was arrested on Thursday 9th July 2009. On Wednesday I'd quit my job, killed a man and set his body on fire. I was sentenced to death. I'm not...
The Kite Runner: Dyslexia Friendly Edition
Dyslexia-Friendly Edition using sans serif font printed with blue ink on cream paper. 'Devastating' Daily Telegraph 'Heartbreaking' The Times 'Unforgettable' Isabel Allende 'Haunting' Independent Afghanistan, 1975: Twelve-year-old Amir is desperate...
Boy Giant: Son of Gulliver
A stunning new story of hope, humanity and high-seas adventure for children and adults everywhere from Sir Michael Morpurgo, the nation's favourite storyteller and multi-million copy bestselling author of WAR...
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Journey to Change the World... One Child
With the first cup of tea you are a stranger. With the second...a friend. With the third cup of tea, you are family. In 1993, Greg Mortenson tried to climb...
No Front Line: Australia's special forces at war in Afghanistan
The soldiers of the SAS, the Commandos and Special Operations Engineer Regiment are Australia's most highly trained soldiers. Their work is often secret, their bravery undeniable and for thirteen years...
Cables from Kabul: The Inside Story of the West's Afghanistan Campaign
A frank and honest memoir by Britain's former ambassador to Kabul which provides a unique, high-level insight into Western policy in Afghanistan. For three years, from 2007 until 2010, Sherard...
The Man Who Loved Siberia
Siberia, to me, is a fairy-tale land. Fritz Dorries set out on his first trip to Eastern Siberia in 1877, when there were still blank spaces on maps of the...
The Cautious Traveller's Guide to The Wastelands: THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
A breathtaking historical fantasy set onboard the Great Trans-Siberian Express 'I urge everybody to pick up a copy' STUART TURTON 'Be warned - once you step into The Cautious Traveller's...
The Rescue: The True Story of the SAS Mission to Save Hostages from the Taliban
The thrilling retelling of a real-life hostage rescue mission, by SAS hero and million-selling author, Andy McNab. It is 2012 and in Northern Afghanistan, an international crisis has erupted. A...
The Lost Pianos of Siberia: A Sunday Times Paperback of 2021
A critically-acclaimed Sunday Times and Spectator book of 2020, and a major new literary voice. Siberia's history is traditionally one of exiles, bitter cold and suffering. Yet there is another...
Barbarians at the Wall: The First Nomadic Empire and the Making of
The untold story of the first nomadic empire and the making of China. 'Man does for the reader that most difficult of tasks- he conjures up an ancient people in...
Owls of the Eastern Ice: The Quest to Find and Save the World's
The Times Nature Book of the Year 2020 - A breathtaking portrait of Russia's remote far eastern forest, and of the world's most extraordinary owl The forests near to where...
The Road to Oxiana
New to Penguin Classics In 1933 Robert Byron began a journey through the Middle East via Beirut, Jerusalem, Baghdad, and Teheran to Oxiana--the country of the Oxus, the ancient name...
Parwana: Recipes and stories from an Afghan kitchen
'Parwana stole my heart' - Diana Henry 'Parwana tells many stories ... it is a celebration: the recipes in it bulge with colour and flavour and life ...' - Nigella...
The Rescue: The True Story of the SAS Mission to Save Hostages from
The thrilling retelling of a real-life hostage rescue mission, by SAS hero and million-selling author, Andy McNab.It is 2012 and in Northern Afghanistan, an international crisis has erupted.A group of...
In the Sea There Are Crocodiles
A beautiful, heartbreaking novel based on the true story of an Afghan boy's journey in search of a place to call home. I read somewhere that the decision to emigrate...
The Rescue: The True Story of the SAS Mission to Save Hostages from
The thrilling retelling of a real-life hostage rescue mission, by SAS hero and million-selling author, Andy McNab.It is 2012 and in Northern Afghanistan, an international crisis has erupted.A group of...
Radio Free Afghanistan: A Twenty-Year Odyssey for an Independent Voice
An FT Best Book of the Year'Saad Mohseni is one of the most remarkable figures in modern Afghanistan - brave, entrepreneurial, with a knack for imagining the impossible - he...
Dark Music: The gripping new thriller from the author of THE GIRL IN
A gripping new thriller from the bestselling author of THE GIRL IN THE SPIDER'S WEB"A nerve-racking political thriller with the most exciting detective duo in a long time. Bring on...