Odyssey Cultural Guide to Angkor Wat (Odyssey Guides)

Travel

Rooney, Dawn

Asia

Odyssey Publications,Hong Kong

The 2nd edition of this travel book which takes the reader on a tour of St Petersburg and includes lists of accommodation and recommended reading. From the ODYSSEY GUIDES series.

Odyssey Illustrated Guide to St Petersburg (Odyssey Guides)

Masha Nordbye

Cuba (Odyssey Guides)

Andrew Coe

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Guizhou (Odyssey Guides)

Corrigan, Gina

Odyssey Guide to Angkor: An Introduction to the Temples (Odyssey Illustrated Guides)

Dawn Rooney

From the blue-tiled splendor of Tamerlane's Samarkand to the holy city of Bukhara, which boasts a mosque for each day of the year, and beyond to the desert-girdled khanate of Khiva, Uzbekistan lays claim to a breathtaking architectural legacy. Bound by sa

Uzbekistan (Odyssey Guides)

Bradley Mayhew

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For today's traveller it is not only the weight of history that makes the Silk Road intriguing, but the incredible diversity of scenery and ethnic people along the way. This book is the authoritative guide to travel in the region.

The Odyssey Guide to the Silk Road (Odyssey Illustrated Guides)

JUDY BONAVIA

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Gary Mead

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The Odyssey Guide to the Yangzi River (Odyssey Illustrated Guides)

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This book retraces the Imperial Way, an historical trade and communications route, that at its height was more vital to China's survival than the Silk Road. From Beijing to Hong Kong, over a distance of 3,500 kilometres, it followed the ancient Grand Canal across the northern plains and natural rivers through the mountainous southern provinces. 
For almost 1,000 years it was used extensively by soldiers, missionaries, merchants and messengers, travellers, traders, tributaries and diplomats. This is the first publication to examine this important artery that traversed China, but has since fallen into disuse and remained largely forgotten for almost a century. 
Discover what this once bustling thoroughfare was like and how it contrasts with what is to be found today. Revealing anecdotes and 200-year-old engravings give fascinating insights into life in historical China, while an engaging and accessible text, illustrated with superb colour photographs and maps, offers a chance to experience the places, people and activities that exist along the route today. 
"The canal at this place is, perhaps, the grandest inland navigation in the whole world. For two days we were continually passing among fleets of vessels..." (John Barrow, 1793) 
"Each year the southern provinces provide the emperor with everything needed... The boats are commanded by palace eunuchs, and during the hot summer season much of the food stuffs are kept in ice to preserve them." (Matteo Ricci, 1600) 
"Along the side of the canal runs the high road to [Canton] and this has been paved throughout and planted with willows. Shops, taverns, and villages line the road so that dwelling succeeds dwelling without intermission." (Rashiduddin, c. 1300)

China's Imperial Way

Bishop, Kevin

Kevin Bishop

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