 | An Unexpected Light: Travels in Afghanistan by Jason Elliot
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.49 On Afghanistan - an amazing first travel book.
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 | The River at the Centre of the World: A Journey Up the Yangtze, and Back in Chinese Time by Simon Winchester
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.48 The most fascinating book about China I've so far read.
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 | Frontiers of Heaven: Journey Beyond the Great Wall by Stanley Stewart
Buy used from: £0.01 A lighter read about China - informative and very funny.
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 | Not a Hazardous Sport by Nigel Barley
Buy used from: £0.01 Only really available second hand but a superb and witty book about the Toraja people of Sulawesi.
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 | Last Chance to See.... by Douglas Adams
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 Only bits of this are on Asia but I couldn't leave it out - a hilarious travelogue which also educates!
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 | An Evil Cradling by Brian Keenan
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 Another dubious inclusion in this list - you can't travel much when you're chained to a Beirut radiator. A phenomenal book though.
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 | City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi by William Dalrymple
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £1.14 Everything you need to know about Delhi - history and humour combined.
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 | Last Disco In Outer Mongolia by Nick Middleton
Buy used from: £4.24 Mongolia - where life is hard and you just have to laugh about it.
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 | Trespassers on the Roof of the World: The Race for Lhasa by Peter Hopkirk
Buy used from: £5.49 While we wait for a quality Tibetan travelogue, this will do just fine. History written as a thriller.
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 | The Trouser People: A Quest for the Victorian Footballer Who Made Burma Play the Empire's Game by Andrew Marshall
Buy used from: £2.30 Football references are tenuous but a fascinating account of Burma.
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 | Adrift in China (Summersdale Travel) by Simon Myers
Buy used from: £0.89 Unpretentious, insightful and very readable account of living in and travelling through China.
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