A Carpet Ride to Khiva: Seven Years on the Silk Road
By: Christopher Aslan Alexander
4.49
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
"Most travelogues chart a journey, but in this case it is the author's decision to stay put that li…
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1. Flashman in the Great Game (The Flashman Papers, #5)
By: George MacDonald Fraser
4.37
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
“Hilariously funny.”— The New York Times Book Review One of literature's most delightful rakes is … read more
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"I've been a Danish prince, a Texas slave-dealer, an Arab sheik, a Cheyenne Dog Soldier, and a Yankee navy lieutenant in my time, among other things, and none of 'em was as hard to sustain as my lifet…"-George MacDonald Fraser, Flashman in the Great Game (The Flashman Papers, #5)
"I'm as religious as the next man - which is to say I'll keep in with the local parson for form's sake and read the lessons on feast-days because my tenants expect it, but I've never been fool enough …"-George MacDonald Fraser, Flashman in the Great Game (The Flashman Papers, #5)
2. Murder in Samarkand: A British Ambassador's Controversial Defiance of Tyranny in the War on Terror
By: Craig Murray
3.85
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
When Craig Murray arrived in Uzbekistan to take up his post in 2002, he was a young ambassador with… read more
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3. City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi
By: William Dalrymple , Olivia Fraser
4.12
Format: 350 pages, Paperback
Sparkling with irrepressible wit, City of Djinns peels back the layers of Delhi's centuries-old his… read more
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"There was that all-pervasive evening scent of cut grass and jasmine."-William Dalrymple, City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi
"Partition was a total catastrophe for Delhi,’ she said. ‘Those who were left behind are in misery. Those who were uprooted are in misery. The Peace of Delhi is gone. Now it is all gone."-William Dalrymple, City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi
"His diaries had begun to assume something of the knowingness of incipient middle age; at times, indeed, he was in danger of becoming priggish and opinionated. As with many later European voyagers, tr…"-William Dalrymple, City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi
4. My Name is Red
By: Orhan Pamuk , Erdağ M. Göknar
3.65
Format: 135 pages, Paperback
At once a fiendishly devious mystery, a beguiling love story, and a brilliant symposium on the powe… read more
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5. The Last Temptation of Christ
By: None , None , None
4.11
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
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6. Turkestan Solo: A Journey Through Central Asia
By: Ella Maillart
3.50
Format: 92 pages, Paperback
Ella Maillart travels to Russian Turkestan which the Soviet revolutionaries are attempting to weste… read more
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7. A Carpet Ride to Khiva: Seven Years on the Silk Road
By: Christopher Aslan Alexander
4.49
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
"Most travelogues chart a journey, but in this case it is the author's decision to stay put that li… read more
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8. An Officer and a Spy
By: Robert Harris
3.73
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
Robert Harris returns to the thrilling historical fiction he has so brilliantly made his own. This … read more
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9. The Harmony Silk Factory
By: Tash Aw
3.75
Format: 320 pages,
Joseph Conrad, W. Somerset Maugham, and Anthony Burgess have shaped our perceptions of Malaysia. In… read more
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10. Apples Are from Kazakhstan: The Land That Disappeared
By: Christopher Robbins
4.28
Format: 141 pages, Hardcover
Closed to foreigners under Tsar and Soviet rule, Kazakhstan has remained largely hidden from the wo… read more
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11. Cloudstreet
By: Tim Winton
3.93
Format: 512 pages,
Hailed as a classic, Tim Winton's masterful family saga is both a paean to working-class Australian… read more
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12. Samarkand
By: Amin Maalouf , Russell Harris
3.82
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Accused of mocking the inviolate codes of Islam, the Persian poet and sage Omar Khayyam fortuitousl… read more
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13. The Railway
By: Robert Chandler , Hamid Ismailov
4.19
Format: 496 pages, Paperback
Set mainly in Uzbekistan between 1900 and 1980, this compelling novel introduces to us the inhabita… read more
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14. At Home: A Short History of Private Life
By: Bill Bryson
3.99
Format: 497 pages, Hardcover
“Houses aren’t refuges from history. They are where history ends up.” Bill Bryson and his family… read more
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"That's really what history mostly is, masses of people doing ordinary things."-Bill Bryson, At Home: A Short History of Private Life
"It is perhaps little wonder that the end of Victorianism almost exactly coincided with the invention of psychoanalysis."-Bill Bryson, At Home: A Short History of Private Life
"It is always quietly thrilling to find yourself looking at a world you know well but have never seen from such an angle before."-Bill Bryson, At Home: A Short History of Private Life
"At one time he [Cornelius Vanderbilt] personally controlled some 10 percent of all the money in circulation in the United States."-Bill Bryson, At Home: A Short History of Private Life
15. No Man's Nightingale (Inspector Wexford #24)
By: Ruth Rendell
4.33
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A female vicar named Sarah Hussein is discovered strangled in her Kingsmarkham vicarage. Maxine, th… read more
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16. S'abandonner à vivre
By: Sylvain Tesson
4.08
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
Devant les coups du sort il n'y a pas trente choix possibles. Soit on lutte, on se demene et l'on f… read more
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17. Damascus Station (Damascus Station #1)
By: David McCloskey
4.21
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
CIA case officer Sam Joseph is dispatched to Paris to recruit Syrian Palace official Mariam Haddad.… read more
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18. Close to Death (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #5)
By: Anthony Horowitz
4.18
Format: 419 pages, Hardcover
In New York Times–bestselling author Anthony Horowitz’s ingenious fifth literary whodunit in the Ha… read more
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19. Kairos
By: Jenny Erpenbeck
3.46
Format: 379 pages, Hardcover
Die neunzehnjährige Katharina und Hans, ein verheirateter Mann Mitte fünfzig, begegnen sich Ende de… read more
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"She would like a shallow life, swift and shallow, till some day she can start again. Get through her time fast until then. And when will that be? Then."-Jenny Erpenbeck, Kairos
20. Sovietistan: Travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan
By: Erika Fatland
4.28
Format: 477 pages, Hardcover
Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan became free of the Soviet Union in… read more
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"W gruncie rzeczy nie wyobrażam sobie lepszej ilustracji szczytu melancholii niż pesymista czytający Schopenhauera w Pamirze."-Erika Fatland, Sovietistan: Travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan
"(...) a kiedy się śmiał, czynił to na ten lekko zrezygnowany, ironiczny sposób, który przyswoili sobie obrońcy praw człowieka na całym świecie."-Erika Fatland, Sovietistan: Travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan
"There are very few lazy people in Uzbekistan now" he said. "I describe as lazy those who go to Moscow and sweep its streets and squares." - President of Uzbekistan"-Erika Fatland, Sovietistan: Travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan
"He shook his head and waved me on to his colleague, who was responsible for moral checks. "Do you have any porn with you miss?" The customs officer looked at me with interest."-Erika Fatland, Sovietistan: Travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan
21. Wilding
By: Isabella Tree
4.46
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Forced to accept that intensive farming on the heavy clay of their land at Knepp in West Sussex was… read more
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"People have a famously soft spot for pigs. Intelligent, inquisitive, imperious, myopic, sociable, gluttonous, grunting, ungainly, it is easy to recognize ourselves in them."-Isabella Tree, Wilding
"The great concerns of our time – climate change, natural resources, food production, water control and conservation, and human health – all boil down to the condition of the soil."-Isabella Tree, Wilding
"Over the years modern farming has reduced soil to....‘dirt’ – a sterile medium in which plants struggle to grow without artificial fertilizers. It is a self-perpetuating cycle of destruction and chem…"-Isabella Tree, Wilding
"But the world of academia is a strange, sometimes counterproductive and often sluggish place. Where one may expect it to be open and responsive to new thinking, it can be oddly conservative and resis…"-Isabella Tree, Wilding
22. The Square of Sevens
By: Laura Shepherd-Robinson
4.14
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
An orphaned fortune teller in 18th-century England searches for answers about her long-dead mother … read more
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"If time with those we love is measured by the hourglass, then God’s greatest cruelty is not to let us see the size of that vessel."-Laura Shepherd-Robinson, The Square of Sevens
23. Høyt: En reise i Himalaya
By: Erika Fatland
4.34
Format: 634 pages, Hardcover
Bestselgende forfatter Erika Fatland med ny, storslått reiseskildring: fra Himalaya. Erika Fatl… read more
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24. Grensen: En reise rundt Russland gjennom Nord-Korea, Kina, Mongolia, Kasakhstan, Aserbajdsjan, Georgia, Ukraina, Hviterussland, Litauen, Polen, Latvia, Estland, Finland og Norge samt Nordøstpassasjen
By: Erika Fatland
4.40
Format: 623 pages, Hardcover
Forfatteren bak Sovjetistan på en enda mer eventyrlig reise - langs grensen til verdens største lan… read more
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25. Central Asia: A New History from the Imperial Conquests to the Present
By: Adeeb Khalid
4.30
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
A major history of Central Asia and how it has been shaped by modern world events Central As… read more
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26. Knife Edge
By: Simon Mayo
3.85
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
You never know where danger may come from... 6.27am. The sky is blue. The air is warm with a s… read more
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27. The Ardent Swarm
By: Yamen Manai
4.10
Format: 174 pages, Kindle Edition
From an award-winning Tunisian author comes a stirring allegory about a country in the aftermath of… read more
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"A God that could still console him for the cruelty of man through the gentleness of his bees."-Yamen Manai, The Ardent Swarm
"Most of them hadn’t even chosen their spouses, and now they were meant to choose who would govern them."-Yamen Manai, The Ardent Swarm
28. Dark Shadows: Inside the Secret World of Kazakhstan
By: Joanna Lillis
3.82
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Dark Shadows is a compelling portrait of Kazakhstan, a country that is little known in the West. St… read more
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29. The Vanishing Generation: Faith and Uprising in Modern Uzbekistan
By: Bagila Bukharbayeva
4.09
Format: 260 pages, Paperback
As a young reporter in Uzbekistan, Bagila Bukharbayeva was a witness to her countrys search for an … read more
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30. Unravelling the Silk Road: Travels and Textiles in Central Asia
By: Chris Aslan
4.31
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Veteran traveler and textile expert Chris Aslan explores the Silk, Wool and Cotton Roads of Central… read more
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31. Restless Valley: Revolution, Murder, and Intrigue in the Heart of Central Asia
By: Philip Shishkin
4.10
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
It sounds like the stuff of a fiction two revolutions, a massacre of unarmed civilians, a civil wa… read more
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