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The Silk Road, two thousand years in the heart of Asia, Frances Wood

eng

Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-254) and index

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index present

non fiction

The Silk Road

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Frances Wood

"Covering more than 5,000 years, this book, lavishly illustrated with photographs, manuscripts, and paintings from the collections of the British Library and other museums worldwide, presents an overall picture of the history and cultures of the Silk Road. It also contains many previously unpublished photographs by the great explores Stein, Hedin, and Mannerheim."--Jacket

two thousand years in the heart of Asia

'A ceaselessly flowing stream of life' -- Coiled dragons and filmy fleeces : jade and silk -- From Greece and Rome to China -- and back again -- A people abandoned by heaven : the Xiongnu and trade during the Han dynasty -- The spread of trade and religions : Tocharians and Sogdians -- The fashion for all things Central Asian -- The caves of the thousand buddhas : Buddhism on the Silk Road -- Tanguts, Mongols, Nestorians and Marco Polo -- A parterre of roses : travellers to Ming China and Samarkand -- The great game and the Silk Road -- Asia held them captive in her cold embrace : explorers on the Silk Road -- Trophies and tiger entrails : hunting and theorising on the Silk Road -- Securing specimens : Aurel Stein -- An end to excavation : Pelliot, von Le Coq and Warner -- The baby general : travel on the Silk Road in the 1930s -- Epilogue: The Silk Road today