Central Asia History

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    • A New History from the Imperial Conquests to the Present
    • By: Adeeb Khalid
    • Narrated by: Aaqil Ahmed
    • Length: 17 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 06-01-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 78 ratings
    • Adeeb Khalid provides the first comprehensive history of Central Asia from the mid-18th century to today, shedding light on the historical forces that have shaped the region under imperial and Communist rule....

    Regular price: $21.80

    • The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia
    • By: Peter Hopkirk
    • Narrated by: Alex Wyndham
    • Length: 17 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 08-29-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 747 ratings
    • The Great Game between Victorian Britain and Tsarist Russia was fought across desolate terrain from the Caucasus to China, over the lonely passes of the Parmirs and Karakorams....

    Regular price: $21.06

    • By: Colin Falconer
    • Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
    • Series: Epic Adventure
    • Length: 14 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 12-04-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 154 ratings
    • From the Storehouse of Winds to the Palace of Myriad Tranquillities, from the Pamirs and Hindu Kush to the legendary Xanadu and the dazzling court of Khubilai Khan, this is romance and adventure on a breathtaking scale....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present
    • By: Christopher I. Beckwith
    • Narrated by: Jim Lee
    • Length: 13 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 01-17-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • With narration by Jim Lee, who tells the epic story of the rise and fall of the Silk Road empires....

    Regular price: $17.12

    • How the Mongols Changed the World
    • By: Marie Favereau
    • Narrated by: Anne Flosnik
    • Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 09-14-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 79 ratings
    • Favereau takes us inside one of the most powerful sources of cross-border integration in world history. The Horde was the central node in the Eurasian commercial boom of the 13th and 14th centuries and was a conduit for exchanges across thousands of miles....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • Between Empire and Anarchy, from the Mediterranean to China
    • By: Robert D. Kaplan
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 14 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 08-22-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 78 ratings
    • Robert D. Kaplan explores Greater Middle East through reporting and travel writing to reveal deeper truths about the impacts of history on the present and how the requirements of stability over anarchy are often in conflict with the ideals of democratic governance.

    Regular price: $22.50

    • A New History
    • By: Valerie Hansen
    • Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin
    • Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 07-31-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 43 ratings
    • In The Silk Road, Valerie Hansen describes the remarkable archaeological finds that revolutionize our understanding of these trade routes....

    Regular price: $17.19

    • Central Asia's Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane
    • By: S. Frederick Starr
    • Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
    • Length: 25 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 10-12-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 509 ratings
    • Lost Enlightenment chronicles this forgotten age of achievement, seeks to explain its rise, and explores the competing theories about the cause of its eventual demise....

    Regular price: $39.95

    • The Russians in Afghanistan 1979-89
    • By: Rodric Braithwaite
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 05-03-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 41 ratings
    • The story of the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan is well known: the expansionist Communists overwhelmed a poor country as a means of reaching a warm-water port on the Persian Gulf. It is a great story—but it never happened....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • Conqueror of the Earth
    • By: Harold Lamb
    • Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
    • Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 05-10-07
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 315 ratings
    • Harold Lamb brings the mighty Tatar leader Tamerlane to vivid life and shows how this ruthless commander used his superior intellect and magnetic leadership to overcome one obstacle after another....

    Regular price: $24.95

    • One Man's Mission to Fight Terrorism and Build Nations
    • By: Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin
    • Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
    • Length: 13 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 08-01-06
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2,740 ratings
    • In 1993 Greg Mortenson was the exhausted survivor of a failed attempt to ascend K2, an American climbing bum wandering emaciated and lost through Pakistan's Karakoram Himalaya....

    Regular price: $18.91

    • The Ancient World Economy and the Empires of Parthia, Central Asia and Han China
    • By: Raoul McLaughlin
    • Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
    • Length: 14 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 09-18-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 153 ratings
    • The Roman Empire and the Silk Routes investigates the trade routes between Rome and the powerful empires of inner Asia, including the Parthian regime which ruled ancient Persia (Iran)....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • Pakistan, the United States, and an Epic History of Misunderstanding
    • By: Husain Haqqani
    • Narrated by: Ralph Lister
    • Length: 14 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 11-05-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 234 ratings
    • A character-driven history that describes the alliance between America and Pakistan, written by a uniquely insightful participant: Pakistan's former ambassador to the US....

    Regular price: $19.74

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    • The Soviet War in Afghanistan
    • By: Gregory Feifer
    • Narrated by: Robertson Dean
    • Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 01-28-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 265 ratings
    • In gripping detail, Gregory Feifer vividly depicts the invasion of a volatile country that no power has ever successfully conquered....

    Regular price: $15.47

    • By: Peter Hopkirk
    • Narrated by: Alex Wyndham
    • Length: 17 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 06-05-25
    • Language: English
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    • For nearly a century the two most powerful nations on earth, Victorian Britain and Tsarist Russia, fought a secret war in the lonely passes and deserts of Central Asia. Those engaged in this shadowy struggle called it 'The Great Game', a phrase immortalized by Kipling.

    Regular price: $30.24

    • America in Afghanistan, 2001-2014
    • By: Carlotta Gall
    • Narrated by: Jennifer M. Dixon
    • Length: 13 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 06-29-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • A journalist with deep knowledge of the region provides "an enthralling and largely firsthand account of the war in Afghanistan" (Financial Times)....

    Regular price: $17.19

    • Child Brides, Drug Lords, and One Woman's Journey Through Afghanistan
    • By: Fariba Nawa
    • Narrated by: Holly Adams
    • Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 06-21-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • An Afghan-American journalist offers a revealing look inside a country torn apart—from corrupt officials to warlords and child brides—while revisiting her own family's deep roots to the land....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • The Great Silk Road from Persia to Central Asia
    • By: Bernard Ollivier, Dan Golembeski - translator
    • Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
    • Series: Longue Marche Series, Book 2
    • Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 11-08-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • Walking to Samarkand is journalist Bernard Ollivier's stunning account of the second leg of his 7,200-mile walk from Istanbul, Turkey, to Xi'an, China, along the Silk Road—the longest and perhaps most mythical trade route of all time....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • By: David McMillan
    • Narrated by: David McMillan
    • Length: 14 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 07-07-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • Unforgiving Destiny follows the true story of the 37-year pursuit by authorities on five continents to imprison and execute David McMillan as he travelled as an independent smuggler. Dogged by an obsessed DEA agent, he evades the death penalty in Thailand by escaping prison....

    Regular price: $24.95