Owen Lattimore (1900–1989)

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1. Peter Hopkirk

   Author of The great game : on secret service in high Asia, Foreign Devils on the Silk Road: The Search for the Lost Cities and Treasures of Chinese Central Asia, Setting the East Ablaze: Lenins Dream of an Empire in Asia

2. Owen Lattimore

   Author of The Desert Road to Turkestan (Kodansha Globe), High Tartary (Kodansha Globe)

3. Sven Hedin

   Author of My Life as an Explorer, Through Asia, The Silk Road

4. Peter Fleming

   Author of News from Tartary, The Siege at Peking

5. Aurel Stein

   Author of On Alexander's Track to the Indus: Personal Narrative of Explorations on the North-West Frontier of India, Ruins of desert Cathay; personal narrative of explorations in Central Asia and westernmost China

6. Annabel Walker

   Author of Aurel Stein: Pioneer of the Silk Road

7. Eleanor Holgate Lattimore

   Author of Turkestan Reunion (Kodansha Globe)

8. René Grousset

   Author of The Empire of the Steppes: A History of Central Asia, The Rise and Splendour of the Chinese Empire

9. Patrick Leigh Fermor

   Author of Between the Woods and the Water, A Time to Keep Silence, Words of Mercury

10. Sir Eric Teichman

    Author of Journey to Turkistan

11. Colin Thubron

    Author of Shadow of the Silk Road, The Lost Heart of Asia

12. Lady Catherine Macartney

    Author of An English Lady in Chinese Turkestan (Oxford in Asia Paperbacks)

13. Gustav Krist

    Author of Alone Through the Forbidden Land

14. Philip Glazebrook

    Author of Journey to Khiva: A Writers Search for Central Asia (Kodansha Globe)

15. Giles Whittell

    Author of Central Asia (Cadogan Guides)

16. Kathleen Hopkirk

    Author of A Traveller's Companion to Central Asia

17. Ella Maillart

    Author of Forbidden Journey (Marlboro Travel), Turkestan Solo: A Journey Through Central Asia

18. Paul Nazaroff

    Author of Hunted through Central Asia: On the Run from Lenin's Secret Police

19. Fitzroy MacLean

    Author of Eastern Approaches

20. Eric Newby

    Author of The Last Grain Race, A Book of Traveller's Tales