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050	0	0	_aPN4874.T43 _bK87 1990
082	1		_aREF 950 WOO _2
100	1		_aWood, Frances
240	1	0	_aToller Cranston Collection
245	1	0	_aThe Silk Road : _btwo thousand years in the heart of Asia _c/ Frances Wood
260			_aLos Angeles _b: University of California Press _c, c2002
300			_a270 p. _b: illus. _c; 27 cm
505	0	0	_a'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
520			_aCovering 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 It also contains many previously unpublished photographs by the great explores Stein, Hedin, and Mannerheim
546			_aEnglish
650		4	_aTrade routes _x-History
651		4	_aAsia Silk Road
651		4	_aChina _x-History
651		4	_aAsia _x-History
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