Traveling the Silk Road

Traveling the Silk Road
Title Traveling the Silk Road PDF eBook
Author Mark Norell
Publisher Sterling Signature
Pages 0
Release 2011
Genre Silk Road
ISBN 9781402781377

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An elegantly, lavishly illustrated history of the legendary Silk Road and the cultural pathway it blazed for the modern world. Spanning centuries of history, this engrossing book--created in conjunction with the world-famous American Museum of Natural History--takes an epic journey to major stops in China, Uzbekistan, Iraq, and beyond. Not only did people from many lands trade their goods along this incredible network of routes, they also exchanged their languages, religions, art, and technology in what can be seen as man's first engagement in globalization."

The Silk Road

The Silk Road
Title The Silk Road PDF eBook
Author Kathryn Davis
Publisher Graywolf Press
Pages 145
Release 2019-03-05
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1555978290

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A spellbinding novel about transience and mortality, by one of the most original voices in American literature The Silk Road begins on a mat in yoga class, deep within a labyrinth on a settlement somewhere in the icy north, under the canny guidance of Jee Moon. When someone fails to arise from corpse pose, the Astronomer, the Archivist, the Botanist, the Keeper, the Topologist, the Geographer, the Iceman, and the Cook remember the paths that brought them there—paths on which they still seem to be traveling. The Silk Road also begins in rivalrous skirmishing for favor, in the protected Eden of childhood, and it ends in the harrowing democracy of mortality, in sickness and loss and death. Kathryn Davis’s sleight of hand brings the past, present, and future forward into brilliant coexistence; in an endlessly shifting landscape, her characters make their way through ruptures, grief, and apocalypse, from existence to nonexistence, from embodiment to pure spirit. Since the beginning of her extraordinary career, Davis has been fascinated by journeys. Her books have been shaped around road trips, walking tours, hegiras, exiles: and now, in this triumphant novel, a pilgrimage. The Silk Road is her most explicitly allegorical novel and also her most profound vehicle; supple and mesmerizing, the journey here is not undertaken by a single protagonist but by a community of separate souls—a family, a yoga class, a generation. Its revelations are ravishing and desolating.

The Silk Road: A Very Short Introduction

The Silk Road: A Very Short Introduction
Title The Silk Road: A Very Short Introduction PDF eBook
Author James A. Millward
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 169
Release 2013-04-26
Genre History
ISBN 0199782865

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The Silk Road: A Very Short Introduction is a new look at an ancient subject: the silk road that linked China, India, Persia and the Mediterranean across the expanses of Central Asia. James A. Millward highlights unusual but important biological, technological and cultural exchanges over the silk roads that stimulated development across Eurasia and underpin civilization in our modern, globalized world.

The Silk Road

The Silk Road
Title The Silk Road PDF eBook
Author Kathy Ceceri
Publisher Nomad Press
Pages 178
Release 2011-01-01
Genre Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN 1619300648

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From Roman times until the Age of Exploration, the Silk Road carried goods and ideas across Central Asia between two major centers of civilization, the Mediterranean Sea and China. In The Silk Road: Explore the World’s Most Famous Trade Route, readers ages 9–12 will learn about the history, geography, culture, and people of the Silk Road region. Marco Polo was just one of many who set out on the Silk Road in search of wealth, power, or knowledge. These adventurers braved vast deserts, towering mountain peaks, warring tribes, and marauding bandits. Silk garments, wool rugs, and fine glass were the prizes for those who survived the trip. Activities using everyday materials bring the Silk Road to life. Young readers will see how ideas in math, science, religion, and art were spread by travelers along with the treasures they found. The Silk Road takes readers on an exciting, interactive adventure to a faraway place and celebrates its important role in human history and development. .

The Silk Road

The Silk Road
Title The Silk Road PDF eBook
Author British Library
Publisher Serindia Publications, Inc.
Pages 394
Release 2004
Genre Art
ISBN 9781932476132

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The Silk Road - China and the Karakorum Highway

The Silk Road - China and the Karakorum Highway
Title The Silk Road - China and the Karakorum Highway PDF eBook
Author Jonathan Tucker
Publisher I.B. Tauris
Pages 272
Release 2015-04-28
Genre History
ISBN 9781780763569

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This beautifully illustrated book is intended as background reading for travelers on one of the most popular sections of the Silk Road—the Xian to Kashgar route through China, linking with the Karakorum Highway through Northern Pakistan. The ancient trade routes between Europe and the Orient, specifically between Rome and the old Chinese capital of Xian, endured for almost two thousand years. Along with trade goods came new ideas—religions, medical knowledge, and scientific and technological innovations passed in both directions and the Silk Road became a great network of veins and arteries, carrying the life-blood of nations across the known world. The Silk Road is a concise, more portable version of Jonathan Tucker’s acclaimed book, The Silk Road: Art and History, acclaimed by the Literary Review as “a beautiful book . . . the most informative work on the subject.” Replete with fascinating details of the main historical sites, works of art, accounts by ancient and modern travelers, legends, poetry and other literary references, photographs, maps, and site-plans, this will be essential reading for all those interested in or planning to travel the ancient Silk Road.

Adventures on the Ancient Silk Road

Adventures on the Ancient Silk Road
Title Adventures on the Ancient Silk Road PDF eBook
Author Priscilla Galloway
Publisher
Pages 164
Release 2009
Genre
ISBN 9780329743376

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Provides accounts of journeys undertaken by three men along the Silk Road, including seventh-century Buddhist pilgrim Xuanzang, Mongolian warrior Genghis Khan, and thirteenth-century merchant Marco Polo.