Friday, December 06, 2013

Night Train to Turkistan - Google Map of the Stuart Stevens and his company's trip along the Ancient Silk Road

Although the title is enticing, the book itself is not a great book. It focuses more on how the hotels they stayed were, the bus and train details and almost nothing about the culture and history of places they have passed. If you are reading to learn about the Turkistan and its people, this is not the book to do so. It is more about the daily practicality of their journey, how they found the bus/train where they sat and how it was etc. The author is obsessed to follow the route of Fleming without any particular reason and they cannot achieve that. Anyways, one of the nice part of the book is the map it has provided. I transferred it to Google Maps to see how the landscape they pass is and here is the link to that: (Opening the map in full screen mode is recommended)
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