Author: Owen LattimorePublisher: AMS Press
ISBN:
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
The Desert Road to Turkestan
Author: Owen LattimorePublisher: AMS Press
ISBN:
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
The Desert Road to Turkestan
Author: Owen LattimoreThe Desert Road to Turkestan ... With 48 Illustrations, Etc
Author: Owen LattimoreThe 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
Author: Owen LattimoreNight Train to Turkistan
Author: Stuart StevensPublisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
ISBN: 9780871131904
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
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
Author: Eleanor Holgate LattimorePublisher: Kodansha Globe
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
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
Author: Joyce MorganPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0762787333
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
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.
The Statesman's Year-Book
Author: M. EpsteinPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230270697
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1517
Book Description
The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.
The Statesman's Year-Book
Author: Mortimer EpsteinPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230270727
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1492
Book Description
The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.
Imperial Grunts
Author: Robert D. KaplanPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307278506
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 443
Book Description
A fascinating, unprecedented first-hand look at the soldiers on the front lines on the Global War on Terror. Plunging deep into midst of some of the hottest conflicts on the globe, Robert D. Kaplan takes us through mud and jungle, desert and dirt to the men and women on the ground who are leading the charge against threats to American security. These soldiers, fighting in thick Colombian jungles or on dusty Afghani plains, are the forefront of the new American foreign policy, a policy being implemented one soldier at a time. As Kaplan brings us inside their thoughts, feelings, and operations, these modern grunts provide insight and understanding into the War on Terror, bringing the war, which sometimes seems so distant, vividly to life.