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Asia Overland by http://www.amazon.com/Trailblazer-South-East-Asia-Graphic/dp/1873756674, http://www.amazon.co.uk/South-East-Asia-Trailblazer-Mark-Elliott/dp/customer-reviews/1873756674. Between maps, the book's writing offered a way to inspire questions and investigation more than providing answers in the style of more classic Lonely Planet style guides. The guide gained a certain notoriety by explaining 'tricks' for crossing ex-Soviet borders semi-legally, reaching Iraqi Kurdistan when that area was still little known to exist, and for getting into North Korea without a visa. Today these tips appear extremely foolhardy but at the time the book was written (largely pre-Internet) they worked and caused much excitement amongst travellers of the era. Despite considerable interest from the public, there has been no follow up edition and at times second-hand copies of the original edition have been offered at relatively exhorbitant prices on Amazon and e-Bay. TRIVIA The book contains several hidden in-jokes including 'towns' on maps named after friends of the authors (Bakus, Danigrad etc). Asia Overland was the first practical guide book in English to cover the ex-Soviet Caucasus region after the break up of the USSR Page Count = 567 Map Count = 452 Publisher = Trailblazer Publishing date = 1998 REFERENCES |
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