Guidebook on Uzbekistan is into 8th edition

Source: Odyssey website.

The 8th edition of Uzbekistan: The Golden Road to Samarkand was released by publishers Odyssey in May 2014. Called 'the best guidebook on Uzbekistan' by the New York Times, Uzbekistan covers the legends and sights of this crossroads along the Silk Road, including Samarkand, Bukhara and Khiva.

Authors Bradley Mayhew and Calum Macleod also include the attractions of neighbouring Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan.


The paperback has 384 pages and 23 maps.

An Illustrated History of Kazakhstan offers expert insights into past and present

Source: Odyssey website.

Odyssey has published An Illustrated History of Kazakhstan, a 200-page hardback by Hong Kong-based Jeremy Tredinnick which charts the country's long and complex history.

Released in November 2014, the book begins in prehistoric times and covers the colonisation of Central Asia by Imperial Russia as well as independence for the Central Asian states.

Many experts were invited to contribute to the book, including Zhaken Taimagambetov, a Professor in Prehistoric Archaeology and Dean of the Department of History, Archaeology and Ethnology at the Al-Farabi Kazakh National University; Renato Sala and Jean-Marc Deom, archaeologists at the Laboratory of Geoarchaeology at the Al-Farabi Kazakh National University; and Karl Baipakov, Director of the Institute of Archaeology of the Academy of Sciences of Kazakhstan.