| Title | Author | ISBN# | Pub Date | Publisher | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baikal, Sacred Sea of Siberia | Peter Mattheissen | 0-87156-584-6 | 1992 | Sierra Club | |
| Beyond Ararat | Bettina Selby | 1993 | Abacus | A look at cycling along the Turkish Black Sea coast. She seems to spend most of her time hitching, but it still offers insights into an area about which little is written | |
| Central Asia, 2nd edition | Giles Whittell | 1860110762 | June 1996 | Pequot Press | Awesome book by a seasoned traveler revelling in unique lands and peoples |
| Cycling to Xian | Lonely Planet Pub. | A lame cyclist whines about biking a small distance | |||
| Danziger's Travels | Nick Danziger | 1985 | Flamingo | A must read for any aspiring adventure traveller. A (laregely illegal) trek across Persia to China | |
| Full Tilt | Dervla Murphy | 1965 | Century Pub. | A classic on cycling iin Persia before bicycle touring was cool, or even conceivable | |
| Georgian Feast | Georgian food, culture, and traditions encapsulated in delicious brevity | ||||
| Himalayan Passage | Jeremy Schmidt | 1991 | Mountaineers Books | Tales of a meandering trail of backpackers through Tibet before the tourist throngs | |
| Lonely Planet - Central Asia | Lonely Planet Pub. | ||||
| Lonely Planet - China | Lonely Planet Pub. | ||||
| Lonely Planet - India & Bangladesh | Lonely Planet Pub. | ||||
| Lonely Planet - Karakoram Hiway | Lonely Planet Pub. | ||||
| Lonely Planet - Mongolia | Paul Greenway et al | 0 864425007 | June 1997 | Lonely Planet Pub. | |
| Lonely Planet - Mongolian Phrasebook | Lonely Planet Pub. | Very useful and cheap | |||
| Lonely Planet - Nepal | Lonely Planet Pub. | ||||
| Lonely Planet - Pakistan | Lonely Planet Pub. | ||||
| Lonely Planet - Russia, Ukraine & Belarus | Lonely Planet Pub. | ||||
| Lonely Planet - Russian Phrasebook | Lonely Planet Pub. | Very useful and cheap | |||
| Lonely Planet - Tibet | Lonely Planet Pub. | ||||
| Lonely Planet - Turkey | Lonely Planet Pub. | ||||
| Lonely Planet - Turkish Phrasebook | Lonely Planet Pub. | Very useful and cheap | |||
| Lonely Planet - Ukrainian Phrasebook | Lonely Planet Pub. | ||||
| Medicine for Mountaineering | James Wilkerson | The Mountaineers | Great medical advice for adventure travelers | ||
| Nations and Peoples: The Soviet Experience | Marilyn Bechtel & Daniel Rosenberg | 0-916972-08-9 | 1984 | New World Review Pub. | Chock full of good Soviet propaganda |
| Nomads of Western Tibet: The Survival of a Way of Life | Melvyn Goldstein & Cynthia Beall | 1990 | U. of Cal. Press | ||
| Off the Map | Mark Jenkins | Great travel tale of first guys to bike across the USSR | |||
| Seven Years in Tibet | Heinrich Harrier | Early adventure travel classic | |||
| Tibetan Phrasebook | Bloomfield and Tshering | 1987 | Snow Lion Pub. | Utterly useless. Full of such phrases as 'is that a buddist monk circumambulating the monestary?" and "is that an authentic prayer mask." | |
| Tibet: A Politicial History | Tsepon W.D. Shakabpa | 1984 | Potala Publications | The foremost Tibetan historian writing in English | |
| The Changing World of Mongolia's Nomads | Melvyn Goldstein & Cynthia Beall | 0-520-08551-5 | 1994 | U. of Cal. Press | Beautiful book about post-Soviet rural Mongolian life |
| Georgia: A Sovereign Country of the Caucasus | Roger Rosen | 962-217-502-3 | 1999 | Odyssey Publications | Awesome Georgian travel guide book |
| The Lost Heart of Central Asia | Colin Thubron | < | 1994 | Harper Perennial | A relatively up to date look at post-Soviet life in the Central Asia republics. |
| Trans-Siberian Handbook, 4th edition | 187375616X | February 1998 | Seven Hills Book Dist. | ||
| Trekking in Russia and Central Asia : A Traveler's Guide | Frith Maier | 898863554 | 1994 | Mountaineers Books | Unique book chock full of hikes in very exotic formerly Soviet locales |
Also highly recommended to check a plethora of articles from back issues of the National Geographic