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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Frances Wood |
| ISBN: | 0520243404 9780520243408 |
| OCLC Number: | 57724356 |
| Notes: | Originally published: London : Folio Society, 2002. Maps on lining papers. |
| Description: | 270 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | '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, van Le Coq and Warner -- The baby general : travel on the Silk Road in the 1930s -- Epilogue : the Silk Road today. |
| Responsibility: | Frances Wood. |
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