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EVER SILENT SPACES: Taxila and the Karakorum Highway (2 October 2001)
In the sixth of a series of articles on their travels and adventures along the fabled Silk Road, Asian art dealers Jonathan Tucker and Antonia Tozer take us through the barren plains of the eastern Pamirs and along the Karakorum Highway, the world's highest public road.

EVER SILENT SPACES: The Forgotten Town of Niya (18 September 2001)
In the fifth of a series of articles on their travels and adventures along the fabled Silk Road, Asian art dealers Jonathan Tucker and Antonia Tozer take us through the Taklamakan desert and the ancient oasis town of Niya.

EVER SILENT SPACES: Kashgar and its Surrounds (4 September 2001)
In the fourth of a series of articles on their travels and adventures along the fabled Silk Road, Asian art dealers Jonathan Tucker and Antonia Tozer take us through Xinjiang, China's largest and most westerly province, into Kashgar and its environs.

EVER SILENT SPACES: From Jiayuguan to the Jade Gate (21 August 2001)
In the third of a series of articles on their travels and adventures along the fabled Silk Road, Asian art dealers Jonathan Tucker and Antonia Tozer take us from the Binlingsi Caves through the Gansu Corridor to Yumenguan or the Jade Gate.

EVER SILENT SPACES: From Sera Metropolis to Binglingsi (7 August 2001)
In the second of a series of articles on their travels and adventures along the fabled Silk Road, Asian art dealers Jonathan Tucker and Antonia Tozer take us from the ancient Tang capital of Xian to the Buddhist caves of Binglingsi.

EVER SILENT SPACES (From 24 July 2001)
In a major series of articles on their travels and adventures along the fabled Silk Road, Asian art dealers Jonathan Tucker and Antonia Tozer introduce us to a lifelong passion.

CHINA'S 27 WORLD HERITAGE SITES (From 18 June 2001)
A whistle-stop, day-by-day tour of China's 27 World Heritage sites, chosen for their cultural importance or natural beauty.

THE EMERALD GARDENS OF SUZHOU (24 October 2000)
Patrick Booz explores some of the recently renovated gardens of Suzhou, Jiangsu province. Known as the city of gardens, there were more than 170 in existence at the end of the 19th century.

IMAGES OF ENLIGHTENMENT (14 July 2000)
Patrick Booz explores the four Buddhist cave centres of China at Dunhuang, Luoyang, Yungang and Dazu, home to some of the greatest sculptures and paintings of all time.

PILGRIMAGE TO PAGAN (7 April 2000)
An introductory tour of the deserted city of Pagan in central Burma with its thousands of pagodas and temples, many small and ruined, but others tall and magnificent.

ROCK OF AGES (18 February 2000)
Paddy Booz takes a journey to Petra, one of the most beautiful archaeological sites in the world.

AFGHANISTAN (3 September 1999)
Tom Cole's visual travelogue of life in Afghanistan in the late Seventies.