books.google.com - 2500 miles from Beijing and 1000 miles from the regional capital Urumqi, Kashgar is one of the most remote cities in the world. But until the early twentieth century it was known as the 'pivot' of central Asia, a key cog in the 'great game', and before that one of the principal way stations on the Silk...http://books.google.com/books/about/Kashgar.html?id=hMJC0JSfBkEC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareKashgar
