3-Day Sale | Save 15%. Get the code »

Foreign Devils on the Silk Road: The Search for the Lost Treasures of Central Asia

by

Write The First Customer Review
Foreign Devils on the Silk Road: The Search for the Lost Treasures of Central Asia - Hopkirk, Peter
Browse related Subjects
+ Browse All Subjects

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. It s 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 treasurees and guarded by demons. In ...

Foreign Devils on the Silk Road: The Search for the Lost Treasures of Central Asia 2006, John Murray Publishers Ltd, London

ISBN-13: 9780719564482

Mass-market paperback

Select 		Foreign Devils on the Silk Road: The Search for the Lost Treasures of Central Asia 2001, Oxford University Press, Oxford

ISBN-13: 9780192802118

New edition

Paperback

Select

Terms of Use | Privacy Policy | Recommendations by Simularity | Copyright © 1998 - 2017 Alibris. All rights reserved.

Alibris, the Alibris logo, and Alibris.com are registered trademarks of Alibris, Inc.

Copyright in bibliographic data and cover images is held by Nielsen Book Services Limited, Baker & Taylor, Inc., or by their respective licensors, or by the publishers, or by their respective licensors. For personal use only. All rights reserved. All rights in images of books or other publications are reserved by the original copyright holders.