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THE SILK ROAD

by Frances Wood

Published by Folio Society. 2003

Nearly fine condition. Turquoise silk covered boards with gilt decorations, gilt title to spine. Endpapers form maps of the Silk Road in Central Asia. Colour photos and illustrations. 270 pages includes index.

Second printing. Top of spine a little creased else a lovely copy (spine not faded, as it often is!) contained in publisher's slipcase which is lightly faded to one vertical edge.

Stock no. 1830734

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Contents

  • Note on Spellings
  • 1 'A ceaselessly flowing steam of life'
  • 2 Coiled dragons and filmy fleeces: jade and silk
  • 3 From Greece and Rome to China - and back again
  • 4 A people abandoned by Heaven: the Xiongnu and trade during the Han dynsasty
  • 5 The spread of trade and religions: Tocharians and Sogdians
  • 6 The fashion for all things Central Asian
  • 7 The Caves of the Thousand Buddhas: Buddhism on the Silk Road
  • 8 Tanguts, Mongols, Nestorians and Marco Polo
  • 9 A Parterre of roses: travellers to Ming China and Samarkand
  • 10 The Great Game and the Silk Road
  • 11 Asia held them captive in her cold embrace: explorers on the Silk Road
  • 12 Trophies and tiger entrails: hunting and theorising on the Silk Road
  • 13 Securing specimens: Aurel Stein
  • 14 An end of excavation: Pelliot, von Le Coq and Warner
  • 15 The Baby General: travel on the Silk Road in the 1930's
  • Epilogue: the Silk Road today

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