Other countries in recent years have also become more popular with Georgia, for example, seeing an influx in tourism after the end of the Russo-Georgian war and its fallout.Įastern Horizons: Hitchhiking the Silk Road is not just a simple account of his expedition through harsh terrains and unsafe countries. In reality, however, there are probably many parts of the country that are worthwhile visiting. I mean, let’s be realistic, there are not many people currently out there that would traverse Afghanistan just for the fun of it for fear of something horrendous happening to them. It’s an account of how some people are not influenced by the thoughts of others less open to exploring perhaps more dangerous routes. It is out of this trip that one of his best travelogues came into being.Įastern Horizons: Hitchhiking the Silk Road is so much more than just a story of two men wandering in the footsteps of some explorer from the 1800s. “ The Great Game…told stories of bold young Englishmen sneaking over high mountain passes to defend the Empire, with India as its centrepiece, against brutish Russian marauders.” ()Īt aged 22, Levison Wood, setting off with his friend Jon and his copy of War and Peace, agreed to head towards Eastern Europe, then into Russia before traipsing across the Black Sea, into Afghanistan and Pakistan before finally hitting India to explore Amritsar, Dharamsala, and Mumbai before relaxing on a beach in Goa. It was this writing that later inspired the young Levison Wood to travel through a similar path, along the old Silk Road, on his way to India. Afterward, he was inspired to write about his trip, establishing himself as both a traveller and a writer. On one particular trip, Connolly ‘set off on an overland trip from England to India, to see if it was possible to travel along the Silk Road in the age of the Empire’. Why Did Levison Wood Take on the Old Silk Road?Īrthur Connolly was a British intelligence officer working for the British East India Company during the early 1800s who for many years was sent on reconnaissance missions across much of Central Asia.

Long before he decided to walk the Nile, scale the Himalayas or traverse through the Americas, Levison Wood took off to follow in the footsteps of one of his heroes, Arthur Connolly.

Levison Wood, the man that ‘has breathed new life into Adventure Travel’ according to Michael Palin

Eastern Horizons by Levison Wood