The Desert Road to Turkestan
Title | The Desert Road to Turkestan PDF eBook |
Author | Owen Lattimore |
Publisher | AMS Press |
Pages | 476 |
Release | 1972 |
Genre | Travel |
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The Desert Road to Turkestan
Title | The Desert Road to Turkestan PDF eBook |
Author | Owen Lattimore |
Publisher | |
Pages | 373 |
Release | 1929 |
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The Desert Road to Turkestan ... With 48 Illustrations, Etc
Title | The Desert Road to Turkestan ... With 48 Illustrations, Etc PDF eBook |
Author | Owen Lattimore |
Publisher | |
Pages | 331 |
Release | 1928 |
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The Desert Road to Turkestan. Twentieth Century Travel Through Innermost Asia, Along Caravan Trails Over which Oriental Commerce was Once Borne from China to the Medieval Western World
Title | The Desert Road to Turkestan. Twentieth Century Travel Through Innermost Asia, Along Caravan Trails Over which Oriental Commerce was Once Borne from China to the Medieval Western World PDF eBook |
Author | Owen Lattimore |
Publisher | |
Pages | 42 |
Release | 1929 |
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Night Train to Turkistan
Title | Night Train to Turkistan PDF eBook |
Author | Stuart Stevens |
Publisher | Atlantic Monthly Press |
Pages | 254 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | Travel |
ISBN | 9780871131904 |
The first account of travel in Chinese Turkistan, closed to foreigners since 1949, shows a world where bureaucratic hazards often loom larger than geographical ones. First serial to Esquire.
Turkestan Reunion
Title | Turkestan Reunion PDF eBook |
Author | Eleanor Holgate Lattimore |
Publisher | Kodansha Globe |
Pages | 382 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
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Over the steppes and peaks of high Asia, here is the unforgettable chronicle of a harrowing honeymoon adventure. Turkestan Reunion, a series of long "letters home", is Eleanor Lattimore's vibrant, gem-like counterpart to husband Owen's classic historical account of the same journey in High Tartary. Line drawings.
Journeys on the Silk Road
Title | Journeys on the Silk Road PDF eBook |
Author | Joyce Morgan |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 349 |
Release | 2012-08-22 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0762787333 |
When a Chinese monk broke into a hidden cave in 1900, he uncovered one of the world’s great literary secrets: a time capsule from the ancient Silk Road. Inside, scrolls were piled from floor to ceiling, undisturbed for a thousand years. The gem within was the Diamond Sutra of AD 868. This key Buddhist teaching, made 500 years before Gutenberg inked his press, is the world’s oldest printed book. The Silk Road once linked China with the Mediterranean. It conveyed merchants, pilgrims and ideas. But its cultures and oases were swallowed by shifting sands. Central to the Silk Road’s rediscovery was a man named Aurel Stein, a Hungarian-born scholar and archaeologist employed by the British service. Undaunted by the vast Gobi Desert, Stein crossed thousands of desolate miles with his fox terrier Dash. Stein met the Chinese monk and secured the Diamond Sutra and much more. The scroll’s journey—by camel through arid desert, by boat to London’s curious scholars, by train to evade the bombs of World War II—merges an explorer’s adventures, political intrigue, and continued controversy. The Diamond Sutra has inspired Jack Kerouac and the Dalai Lama. Its journey has coincided with the growing appeal of Buddhism in the West. As the Gutenberg Age cedes to the Google Age, the survival of the Silk Road’s greatest treasure is testament to the endurance of the written word.