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The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia
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The Great Game

By Peter Hopkirk ,

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Lands of Lost Borders: A Journey on the Silk Road
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Lands of Lost Borders

By Kate Harris ,

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Eurasian Crossroads: A History of Xinjiang
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Eurasian Crossroads

By James Millward ,

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

By Adeeb Khalid ,

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Akmaral
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Akmaral

By Judith Lindbergh ,

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Empires of the Silk Road: A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present
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Empires of the Silk Road

By Christopher I Beckwith ,

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Drives of a Lifetime: 500 of the World's Greatest Road Trips
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Drives of a Lifetime

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The Bukharan Crisis: A Connected History of 18th Century Central Asia
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The Bukharan Crisis

By Scott C. Levi ,

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The Russian Conquest of Central Asia: A Study in Imperial Expansion, 1814-1914
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The Russian Conquest of Central Asia

By Alexander Morrison ,

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Pipe Dreams: Water and Empire in Central Asia's Aral Sea Basin
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Pipe Dreams

By Maya K. Peterson ,

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Anglo-Russian Rivalry in Central Asia 1810-1895
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Anglo-Russian Rivalry in Central Asia 1810-1895

By Gerald Morgan ,

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Kim (1901) by: Rudyard Kipling
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Hokusai: The Great Picture Book of Everything
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Hokusai

By Timothy Clark ,

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Red Sands: Reportage and Recipes Through Central Asia, from Hinterland to Heartland
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Red Sands

By Caroline Eden ,

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The Devils' Dance
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The Devils' Dance

By Hamid Ismailov ,

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Eastern Approaches
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Eastern Approaches

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The Silent Steppe: The Story of a Kazakh Nomad Under Stalin
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The Silent Steppe

By Mukhamet Shayakhmetov , Jan Butler (translator) ,

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The Vanishing Generation: Faith and Uprising in Modern Uzbekistan
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The Vanishing Generation

By Bagila Bukharbayeva ,

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A Carpet Ride to Khiva: Seven Years on the Silk Road
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A Carpet Ride to Khiva

By Christopher Aslan Alexander ,

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The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years
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The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years

By Chingiz Aitmatov ,

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Meetings with Remarkable Men: All and Everything, 2nd Series
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Meetings with Remarkable Men

By G. I. Gurdjieff ,

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The Mongols and the Islamic World: From Conquest to Conversion
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The Mongols and the Islamic World

By Peter Jackson ,

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The Lost Heart of Asia
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The Lost Heart of Asia

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Silk and Cotton: Textiles from the Central Asia that Was
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Silk and Cotton

By Susan Meller ,

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Flashman at the Charge
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Flashman at the Charge

By George MacDonald Fraser ,

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For Prophet and Tsar: Islam and Empire in Russia and Central Asia
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For Prophet and Tsar

By Robert D. Crews ,

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Legends of the Fire Spirits: Jinn and Genies from Arabia to Zanzibar
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Legends of the Fire Spirits

By Robert Lebling ,

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Sinostan: China's Inadvertent Empire
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Sinostan

By Raffaello Pantucci , Alexandros Petersen ,

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Unravelling the Silk Road: Travels and Textiles in Central Asia
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Unravelling the Silk Road

By Chris Aslan ,

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Shadow of the Silk Road
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Shadow of the Silk Road

By Colin Thubron ,

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Taking Stock of Shock: Social Consequences of the 1989 Revolutions
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Taking Stock of Shock

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