From the October 2003 Issue At The Heart Of Asia The Silk Road: Art and History By Jonathan Tucker Strolling About on the Roof of the World: The First Hundred Years of the Royal Society for Asian Affairs By Hugh Leach, Susan Maria Farrington LR
From the February 2004 Issue When Men Wore Mustaches Duel in the Snows: The True Story of the Younghusband Mission to Lhasa By Charles Allen LR
From the February 2005 Issue Jewels and Giardia The Gem Hunter: True Adventures of an American in Afghanistan By Gary W Bowersox LR
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