Traces the drifts of the trade route out of the heart of China into the mountains of Central Asia, across northern Afghanistan and the plains of Iran into Kurdish Turkey. This book recounts the adventures of the author when travelling through the Silk Route.

A guide to the history, people and culture of Central Asia in the wake of the break-up of the Soviet Union. It documents the widespread social upheaval in a region reeling from political change.

The ruins of Phoenician and Roman are the impressive in Lebanon. Crusader castles and Arab palaces stand together in the hills, and the people are a medley of races and religions. This work presents the author's quest for the divinities of the region - Astarte and Adonis, who held the secrets of death and rebirth in the ancient cults of Lebanon.

Colin Thubron relates the story of his 10,000 mile journey across China, which he undertook when the country was just emerging from the Cultural Revolution.

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 for the river Amu Darya. This book offers not only a record of his adventures, but also an account of the architectural treasures of the region.

Marco Polo's book was one of the best-loved works of the Middle Ages, and has remained popular ever since. This book explains the references in the book, and shows in detail with maps the routes described from Venice to Beijing, from Beijing to Burma, and from Beijing to south-east China.

A book about the author's travels around the Siberia.

An account of the author's 15,000-mile journey through Siberia that is one twelfth of the land surface of the whole earth. It presents the story of a people moving through the ruins of Communism into more private, diverse and often stranger worlds.

This work is set deep in the Peruvian Andes, where five ill-prepared travellers - men and women with different values, temperaments and motives - find themselves trekking through one of the most exacting and beautiful regions on Earth.

Edward has lost his short term-memory. He hopes it will return when he sees the cottage in which he lives. He recognizes his overcoat on the hook, his books, the double bed. The mystery however, is Naomi. Edward has no recollection of who she is or why she has left him a love letter.

From the crowd below a journalist watches, as a circus girl performs her strangely daring trapeze act, and is captivated by her beauty, outrageous costumes and exotic make-up in such a way that he finds himself falling helplessly in love with her.

Presents a history of Damascus from the Amorites of the Bible to the revolution of 1966. Explaining how modern Damascus is rooted in immemoriable layers of culture and tradition, this work explores the historical, artistic, social and religious inheritance of the Damascenes with anecdotes about travellers.

A reconstruction of the dramatic weeks leading up to the Emperor Constantine's triumph in Rome. It summons up the Roman world of two thousand years ago, the everyday life of soldiers on campaign and the intrigues at court. It tells the many-faceted story of Constantine's loss of faith in God and in human love.