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JLA reported for the New Yorker on the mujahideen's uprising against Russia in the 1980s, and again through the sequence of failed American engagements. This is a collection of 25 years of ... read more

To Lose a War: The Fall and Rise of the Taliban

Jon Lee Anderson

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This history of the ravishing Central Asian hand-stitched panels is based on a single collection. Many illustrations. (This has been much delayed; first expected in 2022.)

Suzani: Art of the Silk Road

Christian Erber

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Historic as well as contemporary work from all over the world, with a particular interest in their cultural narratives. Large format, wonderfully illustrated and scholarly.

Threads of Time: A Cultural Journey: Textiles from Around the World ...

Daniel Brewster

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Felted boots, hats, suzanis, embroideries and other delights: a second volume on this magnificent collection, following Turkmen Carpets: The Neville Kingston Collection published in 2016.

Central Asian Textiles: The Neville Kingston Collection ...

Tereza Hejzlarova

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His journey with Ella Maillart in 1936, reprinted by Eland. Treacherous terrain, civil war and two travellers who detested each other, yet both wrote accounts of the journey.

News From Tartary: A Journey from Peking to Kashmir ...

Peter Fleming

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Retells the startling story of 'Dunsterforce', the bunch of loons under Lionel Dunsterville whom the British government authorised to go to the Caspian after WW1 to stop the Bolsheviks, secu... read more

Mavericks: Empire, Oil, Revolution and the Forgotten Battle of World W ...

Nick Higham

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A close observation of the last decade of Karimov's dictatorship and the fairly frosty 'Uzbek spring' that has followed his death in 2016 - by an experienced journalist who has spent years i... read more

Silk Mirage: Through the Looking Glass in Uzbekistan ...

Joanna Lillis

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Kabul's Inter-Continental was opened in 1969 and Doucet (the BBC's Chief International Correspondent) has been staying there regularly since 1988. This is a brilliant history of Afghanistan ... read more

The Finest Hotel in Kabul: A People’s History of Afghanistan ...

Lyse Doucet

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Several pedestals are overturned in this entertaining and eye-watering tale of spiritual self-invention and late Empire: deeply fascinating.

Empire’s Son, Empire’s Orphan: The Fantastical Lives of Ik ...

Nile Green

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Entertaining biography of one of the Great Game's most colourful characters, a double-dealing Hungarian autodidact who was an astonishing linguist and an intrepid traveller, making his way t... read more

The Dervish Bowl: The Many Lives of Arminius Vambery ...

Anabel Loyd

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Accompanies the British Museum exhibition, exploring mostly overland networks linking Asia, Africa and Europe, from Japan to Ireland, from the Arctic to Madagascar, between 500-1100 CE: it i... read more

Silk Roads

Sue Brunning

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The author of The Bookseller of Kabul returns after 20 years to look at how three people manage their lives before/after the Taliban takeover.

The Afghans: Three Lives Through War, Love and Revolt ...

Asne Seierstad

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An anthology of the poetry of this ancient and threatened culture: medieval Sufi lyrics and other traditional forms as well as contemporary work. A pocket-sized Everyman.

Uyghur Poems

Aziz Isa Elkun

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Including examples from Xinjiang, Tibet and Inner Mongolia, this specialised survey covers an immense sweep of history, from the C8th BC to the middle of the C20th. Illustrated; clothbound ... read more

Dragon & Horse: Saddle Rugs and Other Horse Tack from China and B ...

Koos de Jong

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Street scenes, portraits, people at work, a classroom, children: this is powerful and poignant record of Kashgar as it used to be. All the photographs were taken in 1998, on the cusp of swee... read more

The Uyghurs: Kashgar Before the Catastrophe

Kevin Bubriski

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Painter, explorer, writer, archaeologist and theosophist, Roerich was a key figure for Diaghilev and Stravinsky for whom he designed sets and costumes (including The Rite of Spring). He was ... read more

Nicholas Roerich: The Artist who would be King

John McCannon

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For all those who, in their heart of hearts, yearn to shoot backwards from the saddle with a compound bow, sitting astride an embroidered saddle rug, wearing tattered silk and a metal bonnet... read more

Empires of the Steppes: The Nomadic Tribes Who Shaped Civilisation ...

Kenneth W. Harl

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Proposes that the Scythians, in their vast territory, contributed much to civilization - not least to the ideas of Buddha, Zoroaster and Laotzu.

The Scythian Empire: Central Eurasia and the Birth of the Classical Ag ...

Christopher I. Beckwith

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Reframes the Silk Road as a diplomatic route, not simply a commercial thoroughfare, especially during the late Tang and Five Dynasties period. Draws on documents from Dunhuang.

The King’s Road: Diplomacy and the Making of the Silk Road ...

Xin Wen

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An account of the shocking evacuation of 2021 and some of its consequences - by two former soldiers who served in Afghanistan.

Escape From Kabul: The Inside Story

Levison Wood

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Looks at three groups of wandering herders in three very different regions - the Central Sahara, the Arabian Gulf and the Central Eurasian steppes. Many photographs.

On the Move: Reframing Nomadic Pastoralism

Various

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In one generation, the Mongols reshaped the balance of world power, aided by the internecine struggles of the Byzantines, Seljuks, Crusaders and others.

The Mongol Storm: Making and Breaking Empires in the Medieval Near Eas ...

Nicholas Morton

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Tells the stories of nine travellers who, from the Sixties, combed the streets and bazaars to finance their travels in Central and South Asia.

Pull of the Thread: Textile Travels of a Generation ...

Sheila Fruman

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The Baburnama for children - a memoir of adventure, fame and all the trappings of a princely existence, yet combined with an exemplary life of the mind, and a powerful curiosity about the wo... read more

The Story of Babur: Prince, Emperor, Sage

Anuradha Sharma

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Turkel was born in a Chinese 're-education' camp, and finally got to the US where he trained as a lawyer, specialising in Uyghur activism. This is his account of China's horrendous oppressio... read more

No Escape: The True Story of China’s Genocide of the Uyghurs ...

Nury Turkel

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Technicoloured dreamcoats galore; lavishly illustrated.

Abr: Ikat Robes from Central Asia

Elena Tsareva

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Gleaming with finds from recent excavations, this accompanies the Fitzwilliam's splendid exhibition of artefacts of the Saka people - ornate metalwork of people and animals, real and imagina... read more

Gold of the Great Steppe: People, Power and Production ...

Rebecca Robers

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Lucy Atkinson (1817-1893) was an English Atkinson was an English nanny working in Russia. In 1848 she set out with her new husband on a six-year exploration of Siberia and Central Asia, by f... read more

Recollections of Tartar Steppes and Their Inhabitants ...

Lucy Atkinson

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A major new history of Central Asia from the mid-eighteenth century to today.

Central Asia: A New History from the Imperial Conquests to the Present ...

Adeeb Khalid

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This is considered to be the definitive edition of Firdausi's epic poem; its illustrations are scattered in collections and museums around the world. They are gathered together in this volum... read more

The Great Mongol Shahnama

R Hillenbrand

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The Silk Road: Central Asia, Afghanistan and Iran: A Travel Companion ...

Jonathan Tucker

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A remarkable odyssey around the edges of that vast country - through North Korea, China, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, Poland, Latvia, Estonia, Finl... read more

The Border – A Journey Around Russia: SHORTLISTED FOR THE STANFO ...

Erika Fatland

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A magnificent account of how the Vikings saw themselves, including also the Viking diaspora, from Finland to Uzbekistan, and also the role of slavery in Viking life and trade that was glosse... read more

The Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings ...

Neil Price

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Tamerlane: Sword of Islam, Conqueror of the World

Justin Marozzi

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Josiah the Great: The True Story of The Man Who Would Be King ...

Ben Macintyre

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The Road to Samarcand: Includes Noughts and Crosses, Two’s Compa ...

Patrick O'Brian

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