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Susan Whitfield: Aurel Stein On The Silk Road

Date: 2022-31-17

AUREL STEIN ON THE SILK ROAD Hie Silk Road was an extensive network of mutes Unking the great cities of Eurasia, stretching from the shores or the Mediterranean to the Chinese capital, Chang'an. For over thousand years, it was not merely a trade route hui a conduit ...

Aurel Stein On The Silk Road

Hardcover: 143 pages
Publisher: Serindia Pubns (March 31, 2004)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1932476113
ISBN-13: 978-1932476118

Hungarian-born explorer Marc Aurel Stein (1862-1943) made eight expeditions along the ancient trade route that links China and the Mediterranean. Whitfield surveys some of the artifacts that he found, most famously at a Buddhist site near Dunhuang, and reproduces many of his photographs. She is Director of the British Library's Dunhuang Project, which is dedicated to making manuscripts, paintings, and artifacts from the Eastern Silk Road available on the Internet. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)