Download or read book The Wakhan Corridor written by Lawrence Bransby and published by . This book was released on 2017-07-09 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The road to Koki Jar is fine but at the end of the trip both the car and the driver will be destroyed" - advice from a local. Well, it wasn't a car - it was bikes, a KLE500 and a KTM990 and, by the end of the trip, the KLE was pretty much trashed. On their 3rd epic trip together, Lawrence Bransby and his son Gareth head for the notorious Pamir Highway, the second highest "highway" in the world tucked deep in the Pamir Mountains of Central Asia.For those in the know, this area has roads and tracks that can be defined as "motorcycle adventure travel at its best".And it didn't disappoint."...add to this river crossings, landslides, minefields, heavy snow and with Afghanistan sometimes a mere twenty metres to your right, this road is what adventure bike riding is all about... There is no easy route to Kalaikhum - either way will turn into a goat track or a muddy quagmire, with the road climbing to altitude and clinging to the side of a cliff face, and you'll not avoid a river crossing either... Landslides are almost as common as river crossings... It takes you out of your comfort zone completely - to regions where English is not spoken... where the writing is completely unintelligible, where you cannot afford to be ill or injured, where freedom of movement is restricted and political stability can be a smokescreen... It's an unpredictable road journey - extremes abound, whether it's the late winters and snowbound passes or natural disasters such as landslides and earthquakes... What more could you ask for?"(Kevin and Julia Sanders - The World's Great Adventure Motorcycle Routes)If you enjoyed "There are no fat people in Morocco" and "Venture into Russia - Three Motorcycle Journeys", you'll love this third adventure motorcycle travelogue by Lawrence Bransby.Lawrence Bransby now lives in Manchester after retiring from a lifetime of teaching. In his spare time, indulges his passion for long-distance motorcycle travel and kayaking.
Download or read book A Pass Too Far written by Lawrence Bransby and published by . This book was released on 2017-06-11 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It took Lawrence Bransby and his son, Gareth, three journeys into Central Asia before they were able to ride the legendary Bartang Pass. But it's another pass that becomes the focus of this story - Matts Pass in southern Tajikistan, and a motorcycle abandoned deep in the Pamir Mountains after father and son push the limits of their bodies and bikes just one step too far. These two have travelled on motorcycles across four continents over the years - Africa, Asia, Russia and Europe - and shared many adventures together. But this trip turned out to be somewhat different. Never before - across Africa, into the Russian taigia or the Western Sahara - have they had to abandon a bike and walk out... "A Pass too Far" is the story of their second and third journeys into Central Asia. (The account of the first can be found in "The Wakhan Corridor".)Award-winning author Lawrence Bransby has become well known for his adventure motorcycle travelogues, the many articles published in motorcycle travel magazines and the illustrated talks he has given at the Overland Magazine adventure bike events. If you have enjoyed "There are no Fat People in Morocco", "Venture in Russia", "The Wakhan Corridor" or "By Motorcycle Through Vietnam", you will love this book.
Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Tajikistan written by Kamoludin Abdullaev and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-08-10 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tajikistan is the poorest and only Persian-speaking country among the post-Soviet independent states. Historically, the Tajiks of Central Asia and Afghanistan along with the Persians of modern Iran came from a related ethnic group. When the Tajik Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic was established in late 1924, it became the first modern Tajik state that remained one of the 15 union republics of the Soviet Union until 1991. Almost immediately after the collapse of the USSR, Tajikistan became a scene of brutal civil war, taking place in one of the global hubs of religiously motivated political struggle, militancy, mass cross-border refugee flows, insurgency, and drug trafficking. During the first decade of the 21st century, the country was making modest progress toward stability. However, the heavy burden of socio-economic problems, in addition to continuing conflict in the neighboring Afghanistan-Pakistan, presented even bigger challenges for Tajikistan. In addition, Western economic sanctions against Russia in 2014, coinciding with continuing lower oil prices, have negatively affected one million of Tajik labor migrants in Russia. Yet Tajikistan has become neither weaker nor less important as a player in world politics. This third edition of Historical Dictionary of Tajikistan contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 800 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Tajikistan.
Download or read book Head East Motorcycle Adventure in Central Asia Silk Road written by Pavlin Zhelev and published by . This book was released on 2018-02-21 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One incredible journey through Silk road: Turkey, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Caspian Sea, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and Russia. The trip last 2 months,17,000kms, we have been in 18 countries, crossed 11 borders and found many new friends. The idea to write this book arose from the lack of available information concerning the destination in question. At the beginning, it was only intended to be an ordinary concise travelogue memoir that would contain everything necessary to guide anyone who wished to travel in this direction. Consequently, I reconsidered, thinking that it would be quite a pity not to be able to convey my thoughts, my feelings and emotions - everything that excited me during the whole duration of the trip. To be able to, at least a little, sense the magic of Central Asia.Note: There are more than 200 pictures in the book, but black & white in order to reduce the final price of the paperback .
Download or read book Journey written by Alan Hammond Nichols and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published by J.D. Huff Co., 1032 Broadway, San Francisco, CA 94133. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Wakhan written by ʻInāyatullāh Faiz̤ī and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Travels in Central Asia written by Ármin Vámbéry and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Ride to Khiva Travels and Adventures in Central Asia written by Frederick Burnaby and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-04-06 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is 1875, the time of the 'Great Game', when the British and Russian Empires are vying for power in central Asia. Great Britain learns of Russia's plans to annex India, the 'jewel in the crown' of the Empire. A British officer rides for Khiva, a Russian city closed to European travelers. He is on a dangerous mission, to learn if this remote and dangerous oasis is about to be used as a springboard for the Russian invasion of India. Captain Frederick Burnaby ballooned across the English Channel, traveled in Spain and Russia, and was wounded, and eventually killed, fighting for Britain's empire. This account of his perilous journey to Khiva, published in 1876 and immediately reprinted, brought him instant fame.
Download or read book Head East Motorcycle Adventure in Central Asia written by Pavlin Zhelev and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-06-11 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He let us have a small in-between room with two beds that were made quite fast with sheets of plywood. They had a thin colorful mattress on top. An old and quite crooked wardrobe was placed at on one wall, while the other was a lacquered dressing table with a mirror. It turned out that we had a neighbor as well. A bank manager from Zurich, Switzerland. Our rooms were partitioned with a thick rug instead of a door, but who pays attention to these sorts of things in Tajikistan? He was in his late fifties with totally gray hair. His face and hands were severely sunburned; the sun being something that he had most obviously underestimated. He spoke English and was sincerely happy when he learned that we could communicate. He was traveling by bicycle. He had been planning this trip for a long time. He wanted to escape the stress in Zurich and to travel Pamir by bicycle. He had flown to Dushanbe, from where he departed 5 days ago realizing that the task at hand was beyond his strength. He had arrived a few hours before us. He had passed only 250 km and had another at least a 1000 more to go. He was feeling that he had reached the utmost of his abilities and had become quite distressed and down. "I can't quite grasp where I am, it's awful really, this broken down road, the dust, the trucks, the sand...and the heat is just killing me, I won't be able to, and I give up. Tomorrow I am going home," he was lamenting. "Wait a second," I tried to console him. "You can always give up and, when you go back, what? I am sure it's not any better at the bank. I am sure that's another hell altogether, did you forget?" "I don't know, I didn't expect it to be so hard," he was shaking his head. "I won't be able to." "Look now," I continued. "Rest a day or two. Gather your strength, it would be a real pity to give up at this point, you are almost half-way there!" "Half-way? I am nowhere, my climb hasn't even started yet - no, I won't be able to." He was stubbornly insisting. "Look what I am going to tell you now," I kept on convincing. "Come with us now, we'll have something to eat, to drink some of the magic potion of my colleague here, we'll talk and tomorrow, if you still feel like it, you can return. In any case you can't depart now. Each day that you survive here is a major achievement. It is a defeat that you will always remember when you sit down at your desk at the bank. Take it one day at a time. This way, you don't have to think how you will make it to the end, just focus on how you'll end the day. You see how easy it is?" "Yes, you are somewhat right, but..." he was being demure. "There are no buts my man, this is not you making estimations on the potential bankruptcy of the bank or some sort of a credit risk or whatever you call it. Here you decide, you either win or, you lose. Every day is a win, come, let's go eat, then we'll speak again." I concluded my lecture series. "You might be right," he said thoughtfully and we went out in the yard. The host brought us our dinner which was included in the price. It contained a soup, a large salad, home-made bread and watermelon. We filled our glasses with the elixir, chatted while the sun slowly descended behind the hills. The river was crashing loudly at the shore under us and one more fantastic day was coming to an end. We quickly emptied our glasses and our new friend became increasingly more pleased and content. A short while before we headed off to bed, he said thinking: "Yes, you convinced me, I will stay. I will rest a few days and I will continue. Thank you very much." "Right, I even sometimes manage to convince Mitaka, so convincing you is not even a challenge," I said in all seriousness. Let's go kill the mosquitoes, cause otherwise we won't be able to get any shut eye. And don't forget, each day is a conquest!" The same applied for us, each day was a defeat. Another battle won - our own personal battle.
Download or read book The Road Gets Better from Here written by Adrian Scott and published by Vivid Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With virtually no experience and absolutely no support, Adrian rides a basic stock motorbike 20,000kms across nine countries in three months to fulfill a lifelong dream. He sets off from the bleak, windswept former gulag gateway city of Magadan in a remote corner of Siberia, but before the day is out he crashes badley, breaking his bike and seriously injuring himself. He is completely alone. He struggles on through swamps, bogs and mud tracks and nearly drowns in the icy rapids along Stalin's infamous Road of Bones. Although it is summer in Siberia, it is freezing and the driving rain is relentless. When the sun does appear, he is attacked by fierce squadrons of giant mosquitoes and, with wild bears roaming, he cannot stop, often riding for days at a time. Sheer physical strength saves his life on numerous occasions. He battles on deep into central Russia, across the vast Steppes of Kazakhstan and on through the scaring Taklimakan Desert in remote western China. He scales the breathtaking Pamirs and rides across the roof of the world before entering the fabled Silk Road cities of Samarkand, Bukhara and Chive. He scurries across oddball Turkmenism, and on across ancient Persia before finally arriving at his destination, exotic Istanbul. At every turn, Adrian is adopted by a vast array of characters, each with stories to tell and who, extraordinarily, expect nothing in return; tough Siberian truck drivers, frontier road workers, border guards desperate villagers, drug-addled soldiers and crazy modern-day traders, each insisting that he join them in their homes to share their lives and most of their provisions. It is these encounters which provide such a rich and compelling subtext to hisextraordinary journey.
Download or read book Where Heaven and Earth Meet written by Christine Du Fresne and published by Lothian Children's Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her fifties, a single mother and artist set forth on an unpredictable journey through central Asia, documenting her travels. These amazing memoirs detail Christine's moments of tragedy, terror and tranquility in her long journey along the Silk Road across Central Asia.
Download or read book A ride to Khiva travels and adventures in central Asia written by Frederick Gustavus Burnaby and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Journey to Khiva written by Philip Glazebrook and published by Kodansha Amer Incorporated. This book was released on 1996-06-15 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author describes his travels to the fabled cities of Tashkent, Bokhara, Samarkand, and Khiva
Download or read book A Ride to Khiva written by Fred Burnaby and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Ride to Khiva written by Fred Burnaby and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Ride to Khiva written by Fred Burnaby and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-12-15 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Captain Burnaby's 1875 journey through Russian territory during the 'Great Game', when Russia and Britain vied to control central Asia.
Download or read book A ride to Khiva travels and adventures in central Asia People s ed written by Frederick Gustavus Burnaby and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
