Central Asia + Mongolia

Book Reviews

• Zahiruddin Babur: The Baburnama
  Memoirs of Babur, Prince and Emperor
• Christopher I. Beckwith: The Tibetan Empire in Central Asia
  A History of the Struggle for Great Power among Tibetans, Turks, Arabs, and Chinese during the Early Middle Ages
• Jane Blunden: Mongolia: The Bradt Travel Guide
• Robert Byron: The Road to Oxiana
  - travels in Persia and Afghanistan in the 1930s
• Sabine Felmy: The Voice of the Nightingale
  A Personal Account of Wakhi Culture in Hunza
• Hal Fischer: Mongolia: Museum Highlights*
  Important Works of Art from the Collections of the Zanabazar Museum of Fine Arts, Bogd Khan Palace Museum, and Choijin-Lama Temple Museum
• Keith Griffin: Poverty Reduction in Mongolia
  - analysis based on a 2001 UNDP study
• Michael Kohn: Mongolia: The Lonely Planet Travel Guide
• Beatrice Forbes Manz: The Rise and Rule of Tamerlane
  - a struggle for power in 14th century Central Asia
• Peter Marsden: The Taliban
  War, Religion and the New Order in Afghanistan
• Morris Rossabi: Modern Mongolia
  From Khans To Commissars to Capitalists
• M. Nazif Shahrani: The Kirghiz and Wakhi of Afghanistan*
  Adaptation to Closed Frontiers and War
• Svat Soucek: A History of Inner Asia*
  - from the coming of Islam

See also: China | Middle East | Pakistan | Russia

I have touched on Central Asia twice in my travels, visiting Kashgar (as a sidetrip from Northern Pakistan) and Mongolia.