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- catalog abstract ""Covering more than 5,000 years, this book, lavishly illustrated with photographs, manuscripts, and paintings from the collections of the British Library and other museums worldwide, presents an overall picture of the history and cultures of the Silk Road. It also contains many previously unpublished photographs by the great explores Stein, Hedin, and Mannerheim."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog contributor b13045983.
- catalog coverage "Asia, Central Historia.".
- catalog coverage "Asia, Central History.".
- catalog coverage "Silk Road History.".
- catalog created "c2002.".
- catalog date "2002".
- catalog date "c2002.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2002.".
- catalog description ""Covering more than 5,000 years, this book, lavishly illustrated with photographs, manuscripts, and paintings from the collections of the British Library and other museums worldwide, presents an overall picture of the history and cultures of the Silk Road. It also contains many previously unpublished photographs by the great explores Stein, Hedin, and Mannerheim."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog description "1. 'A ceaselessly flowing stream 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 dynasty -- 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 to excavation: Pelliot, von Le Coq and Warner -- 15. The baby general: travel on the Silk Road in the 1930s -- The Silk Road today.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-254) and index.".
- catalog extent "270 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0520237862 (hc)".
- catalog issued "2002".
- catalog issued "c2002.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Berkeley : University of California Press,".
- catalog spatial "Asia, Central Historia.".
- catalog spatial "Asia, Central History.".
- catalog spatial "China.".
- catalog spatial "Silk Road History.".
- catalog subject "DS33.1 .W59 2002".
- catalog subject "Ruta de la seda Historia.".
- catalog subject "Rutas comerciales China.".
- catalog subject "Trade routes China.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. 'A ceaselessly flowing stream 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 dynasty -- 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 to excavation: Pelliot, von Le Coq and Warner -- 15. The baby general: travel on the Silk Road in the 1930s -- The Silk Road today.".
- catalog title "The Silk Road : two thousand years in the heart of Asia / Frances Wood.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".