Foreign Devils on the Silk Road
The Search for the Lost Treasures of Central Asia
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- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
11 May 2006
Summary
The Silk Road, which linked imperial Rome and distant China, was once the greatest thoroughfare on earth. Along it travelled precious cargoes of silk, gold and ivory, as well as revolutionary new ideas. Its oasis towns blossomed into thriving centres of Buddhist art and learning.
In time it began to decline. The traffic slowed, the merchants left and finally its towns vanished beneath the desert sands to be forgotten for a thousand years. But legends grew up of lost cities filled with…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780719564482 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0719564484 |
| Author: | Peter Hopkirk |
| Publisher: | John Murray Press |
| Imprint: | John Murray Publishers Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 11 May 2006 |
| Weight: | 206g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 19mm |
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Recounted with great skill … opens a window onto a fascinating world - Financial Times Highly readable and elegant - Times Literary Supplement
Recounted with great skill … opens a window onto a fascinating world - Financial Times
Highly readable and elegant - Times Literary SupplementAbout The Author
Peter Hopkirk
Peter Hopkirk has travelled widely in the regions where his six books are set - Central Asia, the Caucasus, China, India and Pakistan, Iran, and Eastern Turkey. He has worked as an ITN reporter, the New York correspondent of the old Daily Express, and - for twenty years - on The Times. No stranger to misadventure, he has twice been held in secret police cells and has also been hijacked by Arab terrorists. His works have been translated into fourteen languages.
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