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  • Across the Gobi Desert

    by Dr. Sven Hedin ...
    Translated by Herbert John Cant ...
    The socalled Sino-Swedish Expedition was a bilateral undertaking led by Sven Hedin that conducted scientific research in northern and northwestern China from 1927 to 1935. The expedition was particularly concerned with the meteorology, topography, and prehistory of Mongolia, the Gobi Desert, and Xinjiang. Chiang Kai-shek was one of the patrons of the expedition. In the years 1927-32 the party ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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    London-Singapore by Land Rover

    by Tim Slessor, Sir David Attenborough ...
    Why not? No-one had ever done it: one of the longest of all overland journeys, from the English Channel to Singapore. Several expeditions had tried. Some had reached the Persian deserts; a few, the Indian plains. But none had gone further: over the jungle-clad Assamese mountains, across northern Burma, to Thailand and Malaya. It was 1955. For the final 3,000 miles, it seemed, there were 'too many ... Read more

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  • The Illustrated Art of War: Sun Tzu

    by Andrew Forbes, David Henley ...
    Series series Cognoscenti Books
    Sun Tzu’s Art of War has been read and appreciated by a host of military men and philosophers down through the ages. More recently, it has become popular as a manual for business success and guide to boardroom battles, seen by many as a lodestar in achieving success in the ruthless world of competitive capitalism – a text so currently fashionable that even Paris Hilton has been photographed ... Read more

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  • The Mammoth Book of Travel in Dangerous Places: Central and South Asia

    by John Keay ...
    Series Book 349 - Mammoth Books
    Alarms amongst the Uzbeks - Alexander BurnesOf all the "forbidden" cities (Timbuktu, Mecca, Lhasa, Riyadh and so on) none enjoyed a more fearsome reputation that Bukhara in Uzbekistan. The first British Indian expedition, that of William Moorcroft in 1819-26, had never returned. Moorcroft's disappearance, like that of Livingstone or Franklin, posed a challenge in itself and preyed on the minds of ... Read more

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  • A Ride to Khiva: Travels and Adventures in Central Asia

    by Frederick Burnaby ...
    It is 1875, the time of the 'Great Game', when the British and Russian Empires are vying for power in central Asia. Great Britain learns of Russia’s plans to annex India, the 'jewel in the crown' of the Empire. A British officer rides for Khiva, a Russian city closed to European travelers. He is on a dangerous mission, to learn if this remote and dangerous oasis is about to be used as a ... Read more

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  • Libyan Sands

    Travel in a Dead World

    by R.A. Bagnold ...
    In the 1920s and 30s, a band of British officers stationed in Egypt began to explore the Western Desert which straddles the borders with Libya and the Sudan. Adapting a series of Model T Fords, Bagnold and his colleagues set out across territory hitherto traversed only by camel caravans. They mapped new routes across 'impassable' sand seas, in 'regions untrodden by man since the Stone Age'. They ... Read more

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  • The Heart of a Continent.

    A Narrative of Travels in Manchuria, Across the Gobi Desert, through the Himalayas, the Pamirs, and Chitral, 1884-1894.

    by Francis Younghusband ...
    Series series Elibron Classics
    Replica of 1896 edition by John Murray, London.
 Elibron Classics. Oversize maps are available as a free download. 
John Frederick Baddeley (July 1854 – Oxford, 16 February 1940) was a British traveller, scholar and journalist, 
Lieutenant Colonel Sir Francis Edward Younghusband, KCSI, KCIE (31 May 1863 – 31 July 1942, Dorset was a British Army officer, explorer, and spiritual writer. He is ... Read more

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  • Camps and Trails in China: A Narrative of Exploration, Adventure, and Sport in Little-Known China

    by Roy Chapman Andrews ...
    The object of this book is to present a popular narrative of the Asiatic Zoölogical Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History to China in 1916-17. Details of a purely scientific nature have been condensed, or eliminated, and emphasis has been placed upon our experiences with the strange natives and animals of a remote and little known region in the hope that the book will be interesting ... Read more

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  • A Ride to Khiva

    An Adventure in Central Asia

    by Fred Burnaby, Barney White-Spunner, Peter Hopkirk ...
    Mission Impossible – the Central Asian city of Khiva, closed to Europeans by the Russians and a possible springboard for an invasion of India. The man to undertake it – Captain Fred Burnaby, six foot four in his socks, a brilliant horseman, a crack shot and strong as an ox, with eight languages under his belt. In the winter of 1875, braving frostbite and snowdrifts and unbeknown to his army ... Read more

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  • The Dream of Lhasa

    The Life of Nikolay Przhevalsky (1839–1888), Explorer of Central Asia

    by Donald Rayfield ...
    The great Russian explorer Nikolay Przhevalsky (1839-1888) made an indelible contribution to the world's atlases, and its store of zoological and botanical knowledge, as a consequence of his four arduous and dangerous expeditions through the Central Asia of Western Mongolia, Eastern Turkestan and Northern Tibet.Donald Rayfield's biography of Przhevalsky - first published in 1976 and drawing on the ... Read more

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  • Captain Richard Burton's Journey to the Land of the Moon, Illustrated.

    by Charles Holmes ...
    This mid nineteenth century piece gives a brief account of Captain Richard Burton's journey across Africa to become the first white man to visit to Lake Tanganyika. ... Read more

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  • Three Years In Western China

    by Alexander Hosie--The Project Gutenberg eBook ...
    Three Years In Western China by Alexander Hosie--The Project Gutenberg eBook. ... Read more

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