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Author : Countess Alexandra Tolstoy
Release : 2003
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 012/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Last Secrets of the Silk Road by : Countess Alexandra Tolstoy
Download or read book The Last Secrets of the Silk Road written by Countess Alexandra Tolstoy. This book was released on 2003. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four young Englishwomen retrace the ancient Silk Road--4,500 miles in eight months by horse and camel.
Author : Joyce Morgan
Release : 2012-08-22
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 333/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Journeys on the Silk Road by : Joyce Morgan
Download or read book Journeys on the Silk Road written by Joyce Morgan. This book was released on 2012-08-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a Chinese monk broke into a hidden cave in 1900, he uncovered one of the world’s great literary secrets: a time capsule from the ancient Silk Road. Inside, scrolls were piled from floor to ceiling, undisturbed for a thousand years. The gem within was the Diamond Sutra of AD 868. This key Buddhist teaching, made 500 years before Gutenberg inked his press, is the world’s oldest printed book. The Silk Road once linked China with the Mediterranean. It conveyed merchants, pilgrims and ideas. But its cultures and oases were swallowed by shifting sands. Central to the Silk Road’s rediscovery was a man named Aurel Stein, a Hungarian-born scholar and archaeologist employed by the British service. Undaunted by the vast Gobi Desert, Stein crossed thousands of desolate miles with his fox terrier Dash. Stein met the Chinese monk and secured the Diamond Sutra and much more. The scroll’s journey—by camel through arid desert, by boat to London’s curious scholars, by train to evade the bombs of World War II—merges an explorer’s adventures, political intrigue, and continued controversy. The Diamond Sutra has inspired Jack Kerouac and the Dalai Lama. Its journey has coincided with the growing appeal of Buddhism in the West. As the Gutenberg Age cedes to the Google Age, the survival of the Silk Road’s greatest treasure is testament to the endurance of the written word.
Author : Countess Alexandra Tolstoy
Release : 2000-01-01
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Book Rating : 621/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Last Secrets of the Silk Road by : Countess Alexandra Tolstoy
Download or read book Last Secrets of the Silk Road written by Countess Alexandra Tolstoy. This book was released on 2000-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four young Englishwomen retrace the ancient Silk Road - 4,500 miles in eight months by horse and camel.
Author : Colin Thubron
Release : 2009-10-13
Genre : Travel
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Book Rating : 624/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Shadow of the Silk Road by : Colin Thubron
Download or read book Shadow of the Silk Road written by Colin Thubron. This book was released on 2009-10-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shadow of the Silk Road records a journey along the greatest land route on earth. Out of the heart of China into the mountains of Central Asia, across northern Afghanistan and the plains of Iran and into Kurdish Turkey, Colin Thubron covers some seven thousand miles in eight months. Making his way by local bus, truck, car, donkey cart and camel, he travels from the tomb of the Yellow Emperor, the mythic progenitor of the Chinese people, to the ancient port of Antioch—in perhaps the most difficult and ambitious journey he has undertaken in forty years of travel. The Silk Road is a huge network of arteries splitting and converging across the breadth of Asia. To travel it is to trace the passage not only of trade and armies but also of ideas, religions and inventions. But alongside this rich and astonishing past, Shadow of the Silk Road is also about Asia today: a continent of upheaval. One of the trademarks of Colin Thubron's travel writing is the beauty of his prose; another is his gift for talking to people and getting them to talk to him. Shadow of the Silk Road encounters Islamic countries in many forms. It is about changes in China, transformed since the Cultural Revolution. It is about false nationalisms and the world's discontented margins, where the true boundaries are not political borders but the frontiers of tribe, ethnicity, language and religion. It is a magnificent and important account of an ancient world in modern ferment.
Author : Frances Wood
Release : 2002
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 408/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Silk Road by : Frances Wood
Download or read book The Silk Road written by Frances Wood. This book was released on 2002. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This gorgeously illustrated oversized book brings the history and cultures of the Silk Road alive -- from its beginnings to the present day -- covering more than 5000 years.
