The Mammoth Book of the World Cup by Nick Holt

The Mammoth Book of the World Cup by Nick Holt

The greatest trade route of all timeThe 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: Planning your trip Information for all budgets whether you re an independent traveller or joining a group Practical information For travellers in Syria, Turkey, Iran, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan and China 60 city guides with maps Where to stay, where to eat and what to see in 60 stopovers along the way, including: Istanbul, Goreme, Antakya, Aleppo, Hama, Palmyra, Damascus, Malatya, Erzurum, Do?gubeyazit, Tabriz, Ghazvin, Tehran, Esfahan, Shiraz, Mashad, Merv, Ashgabat, Konye-Urgench, Nukus, Khiva, Bukhara, Samarkand, Tashkent, Osh, Bishkek, Issyk Kul, Song Kul, Karimabad, Gilgit, Rawalpindi, Islamabad, Kashgar, Kuqa, Turfan, Khotan, Dunhuang, Jiayuguan, Lanzhou, Xi an, Pingyao, Datong and Beijing Also includes lesser-known routes Southern Taklamakan, Kashgar Rawalpindi (Karakorum Highway), Marco Polo s route to Xanadu Extensive history of the Silk Roads Useful phrases Arabic, Farsi, Russian and Chinese Includes 60 maps

NICK HOLT has over 20 books in print. He is the author, with Guy Lloyd of Football: The Beautiful Game(2003), which has sold over 100,000 copies across all editions, including Dutch, Italian, French and Portuguese. More recently he wrote The Mammoth Book of the World Cup (2014 - 8,786 copies sold), covering every World Cup from 1930 to 2014. He has written numerous quiz books including Quiz Master, for Harper Collins, which has sold over 35,000 copies, and The Mammoth Quiz Book.

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ISBN 13	9780762452248
ISBN 10	0762452242
Title	The Mammoth Book of the World Cup
Author	Nick Holt
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Running Press
Year published	2014-05-06
Number of pages	784
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