The Silk Roads: A Route and Planning Guide

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. 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 51 city guide with maps, plus advice on where to stay, where to eat and what to see. There is also practical information for travellers in Syria, Turkey, Iran, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan and China.

The books also covers lesser-known routes such as Kashgar-Rawalpindi (Karakorum Highway) and Marco Polo's route to Xanadu. There is also an extensive chapter outlining the history of the Silk Roads.