Stranger On The Silk Road
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Stranger On The Silk Road
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Author : Jessica Gunderson
language : en
Publisher: Capstone
Release Date : 2012-08
Stranger On The Silk Road written by Jessica Gunderson and has been published by Capstone this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-08 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
Song Sun likes to talk but never listens. After talking too much to a stranger, Song Sun accidentally gives away the Chinese secret of silkmaking. Will Song Sun be able to save the secret?
Silk Road Journeys
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Author : Yo-Yo Ma & The Silk Road Ensemble
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
Silk Road Journeys written by Yo-Yo Ma & The Silk Road Ensemble and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with categories.
Foreign Devils On The Silk Road
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Author : Peter Hopkirk
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2011-09-15
Foreign Devils On The Silk Road written by Peter Hopkirk and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09-15 with History categories.
The Silk Road, which linked imperial Rome and distant China, was once the greatest thoroughfare on earth. Along it travelled precious cargoes of silk, gold and ivory, as well as revolutionary new ideas. Its oasis towns blossomed into thriving centres of Buddhist art and learning. In time it began to decline. The traffic slowed, the merchants left and finally its towns vanished beneath the desert sands to be forgotten for a thousand years. But legends grew up of lost cities filled with treasures and guarded by demons. In the early years of the last century foreign explorers began to investigate these legends, and very soon an international race began for the art treasures of the Silk Road. Huge wall paintings, sculptures and priceless manuscripts were carried away, literally by the ton, and are today scattered through the museums of a dozen countries. Peter Hopkirk tells the story of the intrepid men who, at great personal risk, led these long-range archaeological raids, incurring the undying wrath of the Chinese.
Foreign Devils On The Silk Road
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Author : Peter Hopkirk
language : en
Publisher: John Murray Pubs Limited
Release Date : 2006
Foreign Devils On The Silk Road written by Peter Hopkirk and has been published by John Murray Pubs Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with History categories.
The Silk Road, which linked imperial Rome and distant China, was once the greatest thoroughfare on earth. Along it travelled precious cargoes of silk, gold and ivory, as well as revolutionary new ideas. Its oasis towns blossomed into thriving centres of Buddhist art and learning. In time it began to decline. The traffic slowed, the merchants left and finally its towns vanished beneath the desert sands to be forgotten for a thousand years. But legends grew up of lost cities filled with treasures and guarded by demons. In the early years of the last century foreign explorers began to investigate these legends, and very soon an international race began for the art treasures of the Silk Road. Huge wall paintings, sculptures and priceless manuscripts were carried away, literally by the ton, and are today scattered through the museums of a dozen countries. Peter Hopkirk tells the story of the intrepid men who, at great personal risk, led these long-range archaeological raids, incurring the undying wrath of the Chinese.
Shadow Of The Silk Road
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Author : Colin Thubron
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2012-02-29
Shadow Of The Silk Road written by Colin Thubron and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-29 with Travel categories.
A journey along the greatest land route on earth, from the master of travel writing Colin Thubron On buses, donkey carts, trains, jeeps and camels, Colin Thubron traces the drifts of the first great trade route out of the heart of China into the mountains of Central Asia, across northern Afghanistan and the plains of Iran into Kurdish Turkey. Covering over 7000 miles in eight months Thubron recounts extraordinary adventures - a near-miss with a drunk-driver, incarceration in a Chinese cell during the SARS epidemic, undergoing root canal treatment without anaesthetic in Iran - in inimitable prose. Shadow of the Silk Road is about Asia today; a magnificent account of an ancient world in modern ferment. 'It is hard to think of a better travel book written this century' Times 'Thubron is the pre-eminent travel writer of his generation' Sunday Telegraph
Extremes Along The Silk Road
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Author : Nick Middleton
language : en
Publisher: John Murray Pubs Limited
Release Date : 2006-05-01
Extremes Along The Silk Road written by Nick Middleton and has been published by John Murray Pubs Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-05-01 with Travel categories.
The Silk Road is the fabled route that cuts through one of the most extraordinary tracts of land on this planet. A vast region separating China from the Mediterranean, it rates as one of the least hospitable on Earth – a succession of hostile deserts and towering mountain ranges, a harsh terrain of howling winds, searing heat and blistering cold. No stranger to unforgiving territory, Nick Middleton follows in the footsteps of Alexander the Great and Marco Polo overland from China to Istanbul, surviving as they did the life-sapping Gobi desert, the icy passes of high altitude Tibet, and the great Steppes of Turkmenistan, and encounters those who eke out existences there today. Nick's great gift as an adventure writer is to weave together the personal experience of ridiculous endurance - from sleeping on steaming rocks in the middle of a sub-zero desert to eating the most dubiously-cooked local delicacies - with the bigger picture of our planet and its peoples.
Story Of The Silk Road
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Author : Yiping Zhang
language : en
Publisher: Gower Publishing, Ltd.
Release Date : 2005
Story Of The Silk Road written by Yiping Zhang and has been published by Gower Publishing, Ltd. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with History categories.
A Single Pebble
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Author : Bonnie Christensen
language : en
Publisher: Roaring Brook Press
Release Date : 2013-11-11
A Single Pebble written by Bonnie Christensen and has been published by Roaring Brook Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-11 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
In 9th century China, a little girl sends a small jade pebble to travel with her father along the Silk Road. The pebble passes from his hand all the way to the Republic of Venice, the end of the Silk Road, where a boy cherishes it and sees the value of this gift from a girl at the end of the road. A Neal Porter Book
Stories From The Silk Road
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Author : Cherry Gilchrist
language : en
Publisher: Barefoot Ministries
Release Date : 2005-01
Stories From The Silk Road written by Cherry Gilchrist and has been published by Barefoot Ministries this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-01 with Asia categories.
Stories from the journey along the ancient trade route between East and West. Includes tales of dragons, demons, goddesses and spirits.
The Silk Road
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Author : Tim Winter
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2022
The Silk Road written by Tim Winter and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022 with History categories.
"Evocative and enigmatic, the Silk Road occupies a unique place in contemporary culture and international affairs. Across the world, it has captured the imagination as a story of camel caravans crossing desert and mountain, of precious goods moving between East and West, and of ideas, religions and technologies migrating across land and sea. As China seeks to "revive" the Silk Roads for the twenty-first century, this compelling, yet poorly understood, narrative of history now serves as a platform for building trade, diplomatic, infrastructure and geopolitical connections. "The Silk Road: Connecting Histories and Futures" is the first book to critically investigate the merits and problems of this fabled geocultural narrative of history, and map out the role it plays in international affairs. Four thematic sections trace its rise to global fame as a domain of scholarship and foreign policy, a celebration of peace and internationalism, and how it created dreams of exploration and grand adventure. China's Health Silk Road and civilizational politics are among the themes discussed that open up the Silk Roads as a space for critical enquiry"--