"The summit was almost continuously obstructed by clouds, and one had to gaze at it for quite long before coming to the idea of the shape...

“To follow the Silk Road is to follow a ghost. It flows through the heart of Asia, but it has officially vanished leaving behind the...

"Bokhara, the most shameless sink of iniquity that I know in the East." -Arminius Vambery, Hungarian traveller and first European to...

“We travel not for trafficking alone; By hotter winds our fiery hearts are fanned: For lust of knowing what should not be known We take...