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The silk road : a history

This book was copied from the amazing and wonderful PAHAR: Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset, a labor of love by two dedicated and talented historians. We encourage you to visit them, and subscribe to their list for updates on new books as they are uploaded. · ix, 294 pages : 24 cm · Using both primary and secondary sources (including the accounts of great explorers), the authors attempt to tell the entire history of what is arguably humanity's greatest highway. Traversed by pilgrim and pillager alike, this is the road of Marco Polo, Alexander the Great, Kublai Khan and Attila the Hun--the road connecting east and west and linking the great historic cultures of Eurasia · Maps on lining papers · Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-291) and index · The silken thread -- On the road -- Days of jade and bronze -- The royal road -- The heavenly horses of Ferghana -- The great chain -- Pilgrims and proselytizers -- A second flowering -- The age of the great khans -- Pax mongolica -- Cities in the sand

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