full of bizarre characters and unexpected encounters, he crosses the desert and mountains of Central Asia to arrive at the windswept grasslands of the steppes, the birthplace of Genghis Khan. (6 x 9, 288 pages)

Stanley Stewart is a regular contributor to the Sunday Times and the Daily Telegraph. His work has taken him to more than fifty countries, and has won him numerous prestigious awards-including Travel Writer of the Year. He is the author of Old Serpent Nile, an account of his journey to the source of the river; and Frontiers of Heaven, the story of his journey across China, for which he won his first Thomas Cook/Daily Telegraph Travel Book Award.Andhra: Lawyer held for FB comments against ex-CM

A civil liberties lawyer has been arrested for posting comments on Facebook against former Andhra Pradesh chief minister and Tamil Nadu governor Konijeti Rosaiah and Congress MLA A Krishna Mohan.

Jaya Vindyala, who is a member of human rights organisation People's Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL), was arrested in Prakasam district of Andhra Pradesh.

The advocate was booked under Section 66A of the IT Act and was remanded to 14 days’ judicial custody.

Police said MLA A Krishna Mohan of Prakasam district had lodged a complaint on April 18 against Vindyala, stating that she had accused him on Facebook of being a paedophile. Vindyala also alleged that Mohan was misusing his proximity to Rosaiah and was engaged in the land mafia.