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In Ghost Train to the Eastern Star, Theroux recreates an epic journey he took thirty years ago, a giant loop by train (mostly) through Eastern Europe, turkey, the Caucasus, Central Asia, the Indian Subcontinent, China, Japan, and Siberia. In short, he traverses all of Asia top to bottom, and end to end. In the three decades since he first travelled this route, Asia has undergone phenomenal change. The Soviet Union has collapsed, Chinas has risen, India booms, Burma slowly smothers, and vietnam prospers despite the havoc unleashed upon it the last time Theroux passed through. He witnesses all this and more in a 25,000 mile journey, travelling as the locals do, by train, car, bus, and foot, providing his penetrating observations on the changes these countries have undergone.--from publisher description.

Presents an English translation of thirteenth-century Venetian explorer Marco Polo's account of his travels throughout China, India, Persia, and other places.

Ruth Padel, the great-great-granddaughter of Charles Darwin, recounts her efforts to save the world's tigers from extinction, describing her journeys into the wild searching for wild tigers in their true habitat.

Follows the journey of Alexander the Great from Greece to India, searching for truth behind the legends.

Account of the author's travels through West Africa, Egypt and Iran, Central Asia, India, Pakistan, and Southeast Asia, areas of the world that are being torn apart by cultural rivalries and the re-emergence of ethnic divisiveness.

Recounts the authors' journey along Marco Polo's route from Venice through Central Asia, Afghanistan, and China over the course of two years, using only ground and sea travel, with over two hundred color photographs.

Cartoons and facts combine to provide an overview of what it was like to travel with Marco Polo during the late thirteenth century.