Central Asia

Through Writers' Eyes

Author: Kathleen Hopkirk

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A title, in which, the millennia of mercantile and cultural exchange along the Silk Route are celebrated by travellers and writers from Marco Polo to Sven Hedin, from William of Rubrick to Ella Maillart

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Between these covers, the millennia ofmercantile and cultural exchange along the Silk Route are celebrated bytravellers and writers from Marco Polo to Sven Hedin, from William of Rubrickto Ella Maillart. Kathleen Hopkirk hasspent a lifetime researching this vital heartland, traversed by five, inhospitabledeserts but united by ancient chains of trading oases: from the Buddhist Empireof Kushan, to the scholarly Islamic centre at Bukhara.