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The Silk Road : two thousand years in the heart of Asia / Frances Wood

By:

Wood, Frances

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Los Angeles : University of California Press , c2002Description: 270 p. : illus. ; 27 cmISBN:

9780520243408

Uniform titles:

Toller Cranston Collection

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DDC classification:

REF 950 WOO

LOC classification:

PN4874.T43 K87 1990

Contents:

Summary: 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 It also contains many previously unpublished photographs by the great explores Stein, Hedin, and Mannerheim

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C.	Consulta / Referencia	REF 950 WOO (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		067557

'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

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 It also contains many previously unpublished photographs by the great explores Stein, Hedin, and Mannerheim

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