Bradley Mayhew, a senior writer for Lonely Planet Publications, re-travels the Silk Road in the tracks of its most well-known voyager: the medieval explorer and writer Marco Polo. Bradley passes oriental cities, travels through inhospitable mountain ranges, and bests forbidding deserts. He re-imagines the past and reveals today’s reality in countries as diverse as Turkey, Israel, Syria, Iran, Afghanistan, the Central Asian republics, and China. Traveling the Silk Road today is every bit as exciting and adventurous as it was in Marco Polo’s time.

Bradley Mayhew, a senior writer for Lonely Planet Publications, re-travels the Silk Road in the tracks of its most well-known voyager: the medieval explorer and writer Marco Polo. Bradley passes oriental cities, travels through inhospitable mountain ranges, and bests forbidding deserts. He re-imagines the past and reveals today’s reality in countries as diverse as Turkey, Israel, Syria, Iran, Afghanistan, the Central Asian republics, and China. Traveling the Silk Road today is every bit as exciting and adventurous as it was in Marco Polo’s time.