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Title: First Time Around the World

Author: Doug Lansky

Publisher: Rough Guides

ISBN: 1843530570

Description: A pre-trip guide for travellers planning their first trip around the world. Written by an experienced traveller, it covers everything from budgeting, packing and avoiding scams to staying healthy and working abroad. The guide contains area profiles, giving the lowdown on where to go and the best way of getting around. Colour photographs provide evocative images of some of the most alluring destinations and there are anecdotes throughout from other travellers.

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Title: Trans-Siberian Handbook

Author: Bryn Thomas

Publisher: Trailblazer

ISBN: 1873756704

Description: The World's Greatest Rail Journey
A trip across Siberia on the longest continuous railway track in the world is undoubtedly the journey of a lifetime. It's also a convenient way to reach China, Mongolia or Japan. Tickets are not expensive or difficult to arrange. Siberia: now wide open to visitors - for the first time in Russia's history you can now travel almost anywhere you want in Siberia: we tell you how to arrange a trip, where to buy tickets and where to go. Kilometre-by-kilometre route guide - covering the entire routes of the Trans-Siberian, Trans-Manchurian and Trans-Mongolian railways with 38 strip maps in English, Russian and Chinese: see where you are as you travel.

Russia - Background information for visitors
Siberia - Infamous past and present potential
The Railway - Construction, steam locomotives, early travellers, the Trans-Siberian today
City guides with maps - The best sights, places to stay and restaurants for all budgets: Moscow, St Petersburg, Ulan Bator, Harbin, Beijing and 23 towns in Siberia; nutshell information on Minsk, Berlin, Baltic Republics, Helsinki, Hong Kong & Tokyo

Sixth edition includes 65 maps. Plus - Russian, Mongolian and Chinese phrases, rail fares and timetables

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Title: The Silk Roads - A route and planning guide

Author: Dominic Streatfeild-James & Paul Wilson

Publisher: Trailblazer

ISBN: 1873756534

Description: The greatest trade route of all time -
The Silk Road was never a single thread across Asia but an intricate web of shorter routes - Silk Roads - which together linked the Pacific Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea. This guidebook is the first to cover these routes in their entirety and with it you can retrace the Golden Road to Samarkand, follow in the footsteps of Alexander the Great, Genghis Khan and Marco Polo, and travel the length of the Great Wall of China. With detailed information on over 10,000km (6000 miles) of overland routes both by road and rail, this guide includes:

40 city guides with maps Where to stay, where to eat and what to see in 40 stopovers along the way, including: Damascus, Palmyra, Aleppo, Antioch, Erzurum, Tehran, Esfahan, Shiraz, Mashad, Merv, Ashgabat, Khiva, Bukhara, Samarkand, Tashkent, Osh, Bishkek, Karimabad, Gilgit, Rawalpindi, Kashgar, Khotan, Turfan, Dunhuang, Lanzhou, Xiian, Datong and Beijing

Practical information - For travellers in Turkey, Syria, Iran, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan and China

Planning your trip - Information for all budgets whether you're an independent traveller or joining a group. Also includes lesser-known routes Southern Taklamakan, Kashgar, Rawalpindi via the Karakorum Highway, and Marco Polo's route to Xanadu

- Extensive history of the Silk Roads
- Useful phrases - Arabic, Farsi, Russian and Chinese
- Includes 50 maps

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