• Night Train to Turkistan, Stuart Stevens
• The Road to Miran, Christa Paula
• Danziger’s Travels, Nick Danziger
• The Lost Heart of Asia, Colin Thubron, London, 1995
• Full Tilt - Dunkirk to Delhi by Bicycle, Dervla Murphy
• Sand und Seide, Gruscheke, Heinzmann et al.
• Frontiers of Heaven, Stanley Stewart (only about Xinjiang and the north of Pakistan)

• The Silk Road by Rail, Dominic Streatfield-James, 1993
• Chinas Norden - Die Seidenstraße, Reise Know-How
• Asia Overland, Mark Elliot

• Foreign Devils on the Silk Road, Peter Hopkirk (fascinating account of the plundering of the treasures of Xinjiang)

• Auf Tramptour bis Pakistan - Per Daumen durch die Weiten Asiens, Ulrich Look

• Iran, tours 2/96

• Iran: A Travel Survival Kit. Lonely Planet
• Iran, Conrad Stein Verlag
• Iran, Claudia Stodte, Edition Erde

• Vorderasien, RV Verlag, 1:4 Mio
• Iran, RV Verlag
• Iran, International Travel Maps ITM

• Iran. 3 Wege nach Isfahan. “Du“ Verlag, Zürich.

• Chinas Norden - Die Seidenstraße, Reise Know-How
• Reisegast in China, Iwanowski Reiseverlag
• China: A Travel Survival Kit, Lonely Planet

• GUS/China, tours 6/95
• Shanghai, National Geographic Society Vol. 185 No. 3 (March 1994)

Background Info:

• China Verstehen, Studienkreis für Tourismus

Travel Tales:

• Across China, Peter Jenkins, ISBN 0449214567
• All China Ed. 3, Holledge, ISBN 0844298026
• China By Bike (Taiwan, Hong Kong, E. Coast) Ed. 94, ISBN 0898864100
• China for Women, Fem Press at CUNY, ISBN 1558611126
• Early Arrival of Dreams: A Year in China, R. Mahony, ISBN 0356197506
• Living in China, Weiner/Murphy/Li, ISBN 0835124800
• Looking For China: Silk Road Ed. 1, Judy Schultz, ISBN 0889951217
• Riding the Iron Roster: Train through China, Paul Theroux, ISBN 0804104549
• Shanghai: Paris of the Orient - China Ed. 3, Hunt Holdsworth, ISBN 0844297046
• Slow Boats to China, Gavin Young, ISBN 0140062394
• Travel in Tartary, Tibet & China 1844-1846, Huc/Gabet, ISBN 0486254380
• Tales from the South China Seas, Allen (ed), ISBN 0708847722
• Three Chinas, Purves, ISBN 1550210912
• Travels Through Sacred China, Martin Palmer, ISBN 1855384949
• Night Train to Turkistan, Stuart Stevens
• News from Tartary, Peter Fleming (his 1935 journey through the area, mainly Xinjiang)
• High Tartary, Owen Latimore (also travel through mainly Xinjiang in the 1930s)

• Essential Field Guide to Humanitarian and Conflict Zones - Afghanistan, Edward Girardet and Jonathan Walter/ICHR (The International Centre for Humanitarian Reporting), 1998

• To the Frontier, Geoffrey Moorhouse
• The Great Game, Peter Hopkirk
• The Gilgit Game, John Keay
• The Afghan Amulet, Sheila Paine
• The Golden Peak - Travels in Northern Pakistan, Kathleen Jamie (auch auf deutsch erhältlich!)
• Auf Tramptour bis Pakistan - Per Daumen durch die Weiten Asiens, Ulrich Look
• One an Two Halves to K2, James Ballard
• Full Tilt - Dunkirk to Delhi by Bicycle, Dervla Murphy
• A Short Walk in the Hindukush, Eric Newby
• Where Four Worlds Meet, Maraini Fosco
• Where the Indus is Young, Dervla Murphy

• Pakistan, tours 3/95
• Pakistan, Reisefieber 5/95
• Hunza, National Geographic Society Vol. 185 No. 3 (March 1994)
• Kalash, National Geographic Society Vol. 160 No. 4 (October 1981)

• West-Himalaya - Das Dach der Welt zwischen Nanga Parbat und Ladakh, Werner Kirsten
• Trekking in Pakistan and India, Hugh Swift
• Pakistan Trekking Guide, Isobel Shaw
• Trekking in the Hindukush and Karakorum, Lonely Planet
• Pakistan, Land - Geschichte - Kultur, Michael Beek, Manstedt Verlag
• Pakistan Handbook, Dave Winter, Footprint Handbooks
• Pakistan Handbook, Isobel Shaw
• Insight Guide Pakistan, Inside Guides
• Pakistan & the Karakoram Highway, Lonely Planet Publications
• India, Pakistan, and the Himalayas, Frommer's Adventure Guides

• Pakistan, Nelles Verlag, 1:1.500.000

• Pakistan - Gletscher, Rikschas und Moscheen, www.viadia.de

Reports:

• Usbekistan, tours 5/1994
• Usbekistan, abenteuer & reisen 3/1995
• Usbekistan, tours 6/1997
• Usbekistan, GeoSaison 2/2000

Guide Books:

• Illustrated Guide to Uzbekistan, Calum MacLeod & Bradley Mayhew

• Uzbek ethnopop by Yulduz Usmanova: Alma Alma, Janona, Binafsha (BMG)

• The Lost Heart of Asia, Colin Thubron, London, 1995 (a VERY nice book, arguably one of the best about life in CA)
• Östlich von Konstantinopel
• Extreme Continental - Blowing Hot and Cold through Central Asia, Giles Whittell (written by a Times correspondent who travelled to CA shortly after the break up of the Soviet Union; he follows the footprints of Stephen Graham, another English reporter who travelled in this region just before the Russian revolution)
• Standplaats Kazachstan, Chris Kijne (a nice little book, written by a Dutch journalist who lived in Almaty for a few years; in Dutch)

• Entlang der Seidenstraße, Wostok Verlag Köln, 1995
• GUS/China, tours 6/1995

• Central Asia, A Traveller’s Companion, London
• Central Asia, The Practical Handbook, Giles Whittel, Cadogan Guides
• Central Asia, Lonely Planet
• Sowjetischer Orient, Peter Klaus, Dumont, Keulen (sehr ausgedehnter Kunstreiseführer)
• The Silk Road by Rail, Dominic Streatfield-James
• Asia Overland, Mark Elliot, Trailblazer

• Setting the East Ablaze, Peter Hopkirk (the Bolshevik push for power in CA - fairly recent history)
• The Great Game, Peter Hopkirk (the period prior to above book, the tussle between Russia and Britain for the Region)
• Inner Asia, Svat Soucek (in-depth history of CA)

• Vorderasien, RV Verlag, 1:4 Mio
• Hildebrand’s Travel Map, C.I.S., States of the former USSR
• Central Asia, Nelles Maps
• Zentralasien, freytag & berndt