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 Trailblazer the Silk Roads: A Route and Planning Guide
by Paul WilsonFrom the Trailblazer Guides series. 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: - Getting to the region from North America, Europe and Australasia
- How to travel Ð train, bus or plane
- Trips for all budgets Ð from $15 a day to over $150 a day
- What to see and where to go
- Full reviews of hotels and restaurants
- Comprehensive chapter on the historical background of this most famous of all trade routes
- 50 maps and town plans
- Adapted from Silk Route by Rail, which was shortlisted for the Thomas Cook Guide Book of the Year Awards
- Covers more countries than other Silk Road guides Ð Turkey, Syria, Iran, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan and China
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