The Silk Road
by
Wood, Frances, 1948-
Title
:
The Silk Road
Author
:
Wood, Frances, 1948-
Personal Author
:
Wood, Frances, 1948-
Publication Information
:
London : Folio Society, 2002.
Physical Description
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270 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 26 cm
Contents
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'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, von Le Coq and Warner -- The baby general : travel on the Silk Road in the 1930s -- Epilogue: The Silk Road today.
Subject Term
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Trade routes -- China.
Geographic Term
:
Silk Road -- History.
Asia, Central -- History.
Added Corporate Author
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Folio Society (London, England)
Bibliographical References
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-254) and index.
Field 805
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npmlib 10201018 DS33.1 W66 ysh
Library | Shelf Number | Item Barcode | Copy | Material Type | Status |
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NPM Library | DS33.1 W66 2002 | 10201018 | 1 | B | *二館西文書一區 |