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Among Muslims : Everyday Life on the Frontier of Pakistanby Kathleen JamieISBN 1580050867 (1-58005-086-7)
Softcover, Seal Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Among Muslims : Everyday Life on the Frontier of Pakistan'Book summary:As a woman traveling alone in the early 1990s, Kathleen Jamie had exceptional access to the people inhabiting the remote Northern Areas of Pakistan: She befriended not only the men, but the purdah-observing Shia Muslim women who rarely appear in public. In the isolated mountain villages, she met locals balancing their traditions with the inevitable encroachment of tourism. When Jamie returned to the area after September 11, 2001, she was the only foreigner in the area. In an extensive epilogue, she observes how her friends and the area have changed as a result of war, tourism, and the passage of time. This intimate narrative reveals how Western womens freedoms are perceived. One explains: Your lifestyle is very strange and very difficult to us. Meanwhile, Jamie is surprised to discover that they have never been to the public bazaar that she wanders through so casually. As Jamie discusses arranged marriage, divorce, children, education, travel, and attitudes toward freedom and risk with them, she draws a compelling and lively portrait of their lives and offers important insights for Americans seeking to better understand this remote part of the world. Among Muslims has been shortlisted for the Thomas Cook Award. Illuminated throughout with a vision that sees beneath surfaces. Norman Lewis ... a wonderfully sensual study of the land and its people which feels more timeless than topical. The Observer (London) The publication of [Among Muslims], with its plea for understanding and tolerance, couldn't have been better timed. The London Times (London)[via]More editions of Among Muslims : Everyday Life on the Frontier of Pakistan:
Between the Dragon and the Eagleby Mical SchneiderISBN 1575050803 (1-57505-080-3)
Softcover, Lerner Pub Group
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Book of Ser Marco Polo, the Venetian, Concerning the Kingdoms and Marvels of the Eastby Marco PoloISBN 0804901864 (0-8049-0186-4)
Softcover, Ams Pr Inc
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Buddhist Records Of The Western World: Translated From The Chinese Of Hiuen Tsiang, Ad 629by Samuel BealISBN 8121507413 (81-215-0741-3)
Hardcover, Munshirm Manoharlal Pub Pvt Ltd
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Caravan to America: Living Arts of the Silk Roadby John S. Major, Betty J. Belanus, Yo-Yo MaISBN 081262677X (0-8126-2677-X)
Softcover, Cricket Books
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Central Asiaby Paul Clammer, Bradley Mayhew, Michael ClammerISBN 1864502967 (1-86450-296-7)
Softcover, Lonely Planet Publications
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Central Asia : Lonely Planetby Lonely Planet Staff, Bradley Mayhew, Richard Plunkett, Simon RichmondISBN 0864426739 (0-86442-673-9)
Softcover, Lonely Planet Publications
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El Viajeroby Gary JenningsISBN 8408049232 (84-08-04923-2)
Softcover, Planeta Pub Corp
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Empires Ascendant: Time Frame 400 Bc-Ad 200by Time-Life BooksISBN 0809464128 (0-8094-6412-8)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub
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Encounters : The Meeting of Asia and Europe 1500 - 1800by Anna Jackson, Amin JafferISBN 1851774327 (1-85177-432-7)
Hardcover, V & A Publications
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Folk Tales from the Soviet Union: The Caucasusby R Babloyan, M ShumskayaISBN 505001560X (5-05-001560-X)
Hardcover, Victor Kamkin
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Folk Tales from the Soviet Union: The Caucasusby Mikhail Anikst, R Babloyan, M. ShumskaiaISBN 5050015596 (5-05-001559-6)
Hardcover, Raduga Publishers
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Foreign Devils on the Silk Road: The Search for the Lost Cities and Treasures of Chinese Central Asiaby Peter HopkirkISBN 0870234358 (0-87023-435-8)
Softcover, Univ of Massachusetts Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Foreign Devils on the Silk Road: The Search for the Lost Cities and Treasures of Chinese Central Asia'Book summary:The Silk Road, the great trans-Asian highway linking Imperial Rome to China, reached the height of its importance during the T'ang Dynasty. Along it travelled precious cargoes as well as new ideas, art and knowledge. Its oasis towns blossomed into thriving centres of trade. However, as the Chinese lost control of the region, it began to decline to the point where the towns disappeared beneath desert sands. Local legends grew of buried treasure guarded by demons. This is the story of the intrepid adventurers who, at great personal risk, led long-range archaeological raids to the region in the early years of the 20th century. Profiles of such archaeologists as Sir Aurel Stein, who carried off large quantities of priceless wall paintings, sculptures, silks and early manuscripts, augment a narrative which also traces the fate of the works of art that were removed. [via]
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- Foreign Devils on the Silk Road: The Search for the Lost Cities and Treasures of Chinese Central Asia: ISBN 0192814877 (0-19-281487-7)
Softcover, Oxford University Press - Foreign Devils on the Silk Road: The Search for the Lost Cities and Treasures of Chinese Central Asia: ISBN 0192802119 (0-19-280211-9)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press - Foreign Devils on the Silk Road: The Search for the Lost Cities and Treasures of Chinese Central Asia: ISBN 071953738X (0-7195-3738-X)
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From Gibraltar to the Gangesby David Brownstone, Irene M. FranckISBN 0816018766 (0-8160-1876-6)
Hardcover, Facts on File
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In the Empire of Genghis Khan: A Journey Among Nomadsby Stanley StewartISBN 1585747033 (1-58574-703-3)
Hardcover, Globe Pequot Pr
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In the Empire of Genghis Khan: An Amazing Odyssey Through the Lands of the Most Feared Conquerors in Historyby Stanley StewartISBN 1592281060 (1-59228-106-0)
Softcover, Globe Pequot Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In the Empire of Genghis Khan: An Amazing Odyssey Through the Lands of the Most Feared Conquerors in History'Book summary:Vivid, hilarious, and compelling, this eagerly awaited book takes its place among the travel classics. It is a thrilling tale of adventure, a comic masterpiece, and an evocative portrait of a medieval land marooned in the modern world. Eight and a half centuries ago, under Genghis Khan, the Mongols burst forth from Central Asia in a series of spectacular conquests that took them from the Danube to the Yellow Sea. Their empire was seen as the final triumph of the nomadic "barbarians." In this remarkable book Stanley Stewart sets off on a pilgrimage across the old empire, from Istanbul to the distant homeland of the Mongol hordes. The heart of his odyssey is a thousand-mile ride, traveling by horse, through trackless land.[via]
On a journey full of bizarre characters and unexpected encounters, he crosses the desert and mountains of central Asia to arrive at the windswept grasslands of the steppes, the birthplace of Genghis Khan.More editions of In the Empire of Genghis Khan: An Amazing Odyssey Through the Lands of the Most Feared Conquerors in History:
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In Xanaduby William DalrympleISBN 1864501731 (1-86450-173-1)
Softcover, Lonely Planet
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Journey to Khivaby Philip GlazebrookISBN 1568360746 (1-56836-074-6)
Softcover, Kodansha Amer Inc
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The Journeyerby Gary JenningsISBN 1568496966 (1-56849-696-6)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Journeyer'Book summary:Marco Polo was nicknamed "Marco of the millions" because his Venetian countrymen took the grandiose stories of his travels to be exaggerated, if not outright lies. As he lay dying, his priest, family, and friends offered him a last chance to confess his mendacity, and Marco, it is said, replied "I have not told the half of what I saw and did."[via]
Now Gary Jennings has imagined the half that Marco left unsaid as even more elaborate and adventurous than the tall tales thought to be lies. From the palazzi and back streets of medieval Venice to the sumptuous court of Kublai Khan, from the perfumed sexuality of the Levant to the dangers and rigors of travel along the Silk Road, Marco meets all manner of people, survives all manner of danger, and, insatiably curious, becomes an almost compulsive collector of customs, languages and women.
In more than two decades of travel, Marco was variously a merchant, a warrior, a lover, a spy, even a tax collector - but always a journeyer, unflagging in his appetite for new experiences, regretting only what he missed. Here - recreated and reimagined with all the splendor, the love of adventure, the zest for the rare and curious that are Jennings's hallmarks - is the epic account, at once magnificent and delightful, of the greatest real-life adventurer in human history.More editions of The Journeyer:
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Softcover, Harpercollins - The Journeyer: ISBN 0689114036 (0-689-11403-6)
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Kimby Rudyard KiplingISBN 1404368361 (1-4043-6836-1)
Softcover, IndyPublish.com
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Kim'Book summary:1901. Kipling, English short-story writer, novelist and poet, who celebrated the heroism of British colonial soldiers in India and Burma, was the first Englishman to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907. Kim is his picaresque novel of India and is considered to be a masterpiece. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. [via]
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Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co - Kim: ISBN 1593081928 (1-59308-192-8)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc - Kim: ISBN 1853260991 (1-85326-099-1)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc - Kim: ISBN 1404311920 (1-4043-1192-0)
Hardcover, IndyPublish.com - Kim: ISBN 1592245404 (1-59224-540-4)
Hardcover, Wildside Pr - Kim: ISBN 1842329456 (1-84232-945-6)
Hardcover, House of Stratus, Incorporated - Kim: ISBN 0812971345 (0-8129-7134-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc - Kim: ISBN 0812565754 (0-8125-6575-4)
Softcover, Tor Books - Kim: ISBN 0895773430 (0-89577-343-0)
Hardcover, Reader's Digest Association - Kim: ISBN 8431625899 (84-316-2589-9)
Softcover, Vicens-Vives Editorial S.A. - Kim: ISBN 1404368361 (1-4043-6836-1)
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Kimby Maire Fhlathuin, Marie Ni FhlathuinISBN 1551115212 (1-55111-521-2)
Softcover, Broadview Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Kim'Book summary:One of the particular pleasures of reading Kim is the full range of emotion, knowledge, and experience that Rudyard Kipling gives his complex hero. Kim O'Hara, the orphaned son of an Irish soldier stationed in India, is neither innocent nor victimized. Raised by an opium-addicted half-caste woman since his equally dissolute father's death, the boy has grown up in the streets of Lahore:
Though he was burned black as any native; though he spoke the vernacular by preference, and his mother-tongue in a clipped uncertain sing-song; though he consorted on terms of perfect equality with the small boys of the bazar; Kim was white--a poor white of the very poorest.
From his father and the woman who raised him, Kim has come to believe that a great destiny awaits him. The details, however, are a bit fuzzy, consisting as they do of the woman's addled prophecies of "'a great Red Bull on a green field, and the Colonel riding on his tall horse, yes, and'--dropping into English--'nine hundred devils.'"In the meantime, Kim amuses himself with intrigues, executing "commissions by night on the crowded housetops for sleek and shiny young men of fashion." His peculiar heritage as a white child gone native, combined with his "love of the game for its own sake," makes him uniquely suited for a bigger game. And when, at last, the long-awaited colonel comes along, Kim is recruited as a spy in Britain's struggle to maintain its colonial grip on India. Kipling was, first and foremost, a man of his time; born and raised in India in the 19th century, he was a fervid supporter of the Raj. Nevertheless, his portrait of India and its people is remarkably sympathetic. Yes, there is the stereotypical Westernized Indian Babu Huree Chander with his atrocious English, but there is also Kim's friend and mentor, the Afghani horse trader Mahub Ali, and the gentle Tibetan lama with whom Kim travels along the Grand Trunk Road. The humanity of his characters consistently belies Kipling's private prejudices, and raises Kim above the mere ripping good yarn to the level of a timeless classic. --Alix Wilber [via]
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The Legacy of Genghis Khan: Courtly Art and Culture in Western Asia, 1256-1353by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), Stefano Carboni, Linda KomaroffISBN 1588390721 (1-58839-072-1)
Softcover, Metropolitan Museum of Art
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Legacy of Genghis Khan: Courtly Art and Culture in Western Asia, 1256-1353'Book summary:In the 13th century, under the leadership of Genghis Khan, nomadic horsemen burst out of Mongolia and began their sweep across Asia, creating the largest empire the world has ever known. Particularly in China and Iran (Persia), the results were far-reaching: the Mongols imposed enormous changes but were also influenced by the highly developed civilizations of their new subjects. During the century they ruled Iran - the period of the Ilkhanid dynasty (1256 to 1353) - the Mongols adopted Islam and sponsored a brilliant cultural flowering that encompassed many branches of the arts and transformed local Persian artistic traditions. This volume, which focuses on the Ilkhans and their culture, features some 200 extraordinary objects in colour, including manuscript paintings and illuminations, ceramic tiles, metalwork and textiles. Essays by eight scholars provide the historical and political background and address such subjects as the art of the book, religious art, and the transmission of designs across Asia. [via]
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Life Along the Silk Roadby Susan WhitfieldISBN 0520232143 (0-520-23214-3)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Life Along the Silk Road'Book summary:In the first 1,000 years after Christ, merchants, missionaries, monks, mendicants, and military men traveled on the vast network of Central Asian tracks that became known as the Silk Road. Linking Europe, India, and the Far East, the route passed through many countries and many settlements, from the splendid city of Samarkand to tiny desert hamlets. Susan Whitfield creates a rich and varied portrait of life along the greatest trade route in history in a vivid, lively, and learned account that spans the eighth through the tenth centuries. Recounting the lives of ten individuals who lived at different times during this period, Whitfield draws on contemporary sources and uses firsthand accounts whenever possible to reconstruct the history of the route through the personal experiences of these characters.[via]
Life along the Silk Road brings alive the now ruined and sand-covered desert towns and their inhabitants. Readers encounter an Ulghur nomad from the Gobi Desert accompanying a herd of steppe ponies for sale to the Chinese state; Ah-long, widow of a prosperous merchant, now reduced to poverty and forced to resort to law and charity to survive; and the Chinese princess sent as part of a diplomatic deal to marry a Turkish kaghan. In the process we learn about women's lives, modes of communication, weapons, types of cosmetics, methods of treating altitude sickness in the Tibetan army, and ways that merchants cheated their customers. Throughout the narrative, Whitfield conveys a strong sense of what life was like for ordinary men and women on the Silk Road--everyone from itinerant Buddhist monks, to Zoroastrians and Nestorian Christians seeking converts among the desert settlers, to storytellers, musicians, courtesans, diviners, peddlers, and miracle-workers who offered their wares in the marketplaces and at temple fairs. A work of great scholarship, Life along the Silk Road is at the same time extremely accessible and entertaining. 
The Light Garden of the Angel King: Travels in Afghanistanby Peter LeviISBN 1873429355 (1-873429-35-5)
Softcover, Pallas Athene Pub
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Like Hidden Fire: The Plot to Bring Down the British Empireby Peter HopkirkISBN 1568361270 (1-56836-127-0)
Softcover, Kodansha Amer Inc
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An acclaimed historian tells, for the first time, the full story of the conspiracy between the Germans and the Turks to unleash a Muslim holy war against the British in India and the Russians in the Caucasus. Drawing on recently opened intelligence files and rare personal accounts, Peter Hopkirk skillfully reconstructs the Kaiser's bold plan and describes the exploits of the secret agents on both sides-disguised variously as archaeologists, traders, and circus performers-as they sought to foment or foil the uprising and determine the outcome of World War I. [via]More editions of Like Hidden Fire: The Plot to Bring Down the British Empire:
Marco Polo for Kids: His Marvelous Journey to China 21 Activitiesby Janis HerbertISBN 1556523777 (1-55652-377-7)
Softcover, Chicago Review Pr
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Monks and Merchants : Silk Road Treasures from Northwest Chinaby Annette L. Juliano, Judith A. LernerISBN 0810934787 (0-8109-3478-7)
Hardcover, Abrams , Incorporated, Harry N.
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Monks and Merchants: Silk Road Treasures from Northwest China Gansu and Ningxia Provinces, Fourth-Seventh Centuryby Annette L. Juliano, Judith A. Lerner, Michael AlramISBN 0878480897 (0-87848-089-7)
Softcover, Asia Society
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News from Tartary: A Journey from Peking to Kashmirby Peter FlemingISBN 0810160714 (0-8101-6071-4)
Softcover, Marlboro Pr
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Night Train to Turkistan: Modern Adventures Along China's Ancient Silk Roadby Stuart StevensISBN 0871131900 (0-87113-190-0)
Softcover, Atlantic Monthly Pr
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On Ancient Central Asian Tracksby Aurel SteinISBN 8173031088 (81-7303-108-8)
Softcover, South Asia Books
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Oriental Rugs of the Silk Route: Culture, Process, and Selectionby John B. GregorianISBN 0847822214 (0-8478-2221-4)
Hardcover, Rizzoli Intl Pubns
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Religions of the Silk Roadby Richard C. FoltzISBN 0312233388 (0-312-23338-8)
Softcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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Religions of the Silk Road: Overland Trade and Cultural Exchange from Antiquity to the Fifteenth Centuryby Richard C. FoltzISBN 0312214081 (0-312-21408-1)
Hardcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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Samarcandaby Amin MaaloufISBN 8420656879 (84-206-5687-9)
Softcover, Alianza Editorial Sa
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Samarkandby Amin Maalouf, Russell HarrisISBN 1566562937 (1-56656-293-7)
Softcover, Interlink Pub Group Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Samarkand'Book summary:Accused of mocking the inviolate codes of Islam, the Persian poet and sage Omar Khayyam fortuitously finds sympathy with the very man who is to judge his alleged crimes. Recognising genuis, the judge decides to spare him and gives him instead a small, blank book, encouraging him to confine his thoughts to it alone. Thus beginds the seamless blend of fact and fiction that is Samarkand. Vividly re-creating the history of the manuscript of the Rubaiyaat of Omar Khayyam, Amin Maalouf spans continents and centuries with breathtaking vision: the dusky exoticism of 11th-century Persia, with its poetesses and assassins; the same country's struggles nine hundred years later, seen through the eyes of an American academic obsessed with finding the original manuscript; and the fated maiden voyage of the Titanic, whose tragedy led to the Rubaiyaat's final resting place - all are brought to life with keen assurance by this gifted and award-winning writer. [via]
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Setting the East Ablaze: Lenin's Dream of an Empire in Asiaby Peter HopkirkISBN 1568361025 (1-56836-102-5)
Softcover, Kodansha Amer Inc
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The Silk Road: A Historyby Irene M. Franck, David M. BrownstoneISBN 0816011222 (0-8160-1122-2)
Hardcover, Facts on File
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The Silk Road: Art and Historyby Jonathan TuckerISBN 1588860221 (1-58886-022-1)
Hardcover, Art Media Resources Ltd
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Silk Road Cooking: A Vegetarian Journeyby Najmieh BatmanglijISBN 0934211965 (0-934211-96-5)
Softcover, Mage Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Silk Road Cooking: A Vegetarian Journey'Book summary:This book is at once an exploration, a celebration, and a little-known tale of unity. It presents 150 delicious vegetarian dishes that together trace a fascinating story of culinary linkage. As renowned cookbook writer and teacher Najmieh Batmanglij explains, all have their origins along the ancient network of trade routes known as the Silk Road, stretching from China in the east to the Mediterranean in the west. On this highway moved not just trade goods but also ideas, customs, tastes and such basics of life as cooking ingredients. The result was the connecting and enrichment of dozens of cuisines. In Silk Road Cooking: A Vegetarian Journey, Najmieh Batmanglij recounts that process and brings it into the modern kitchen in the form of recipes that are venturesome and yet within reach of any cook. They are intended for vegetarian, partial-vegetarian and non-vegetarian alike-anyone who is looking for balanced, unusual and exceptionally tasty dishes. [via]
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Silk Road: Monks, Warriors & Merchants on the Silk Roadby Luce Boulnois, Bradley Mayhew, Angela Sheng, Helen Loveday, Adam Woolfitt, Wong How Man, Amar GroverISBN 9622177212 (962-217-721-2)
Softcover, Odyssey Pubns
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The Silk Road: Trade, Travel, War And Faithby British Library, Ursula Sims-WilliamsISBN 193247613X (1-932476-13-X)
Softcover, Serindia Pubns
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The Silk Road: Two Thousand Years in the Heart of Asiaby Frances WoodISBN 0520243404 (0-520-24340-4)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Silk Road: Two Thousand Years in the Heart of Asia'Book summary:The Silk Road, a series of ancient trade routes stretching across Central Asia to Europe, evokes exotic images of camel trains laden with bales of fine Chinese silk, spices, and perfume, of desert oases surrounded by snow-capped mountains, of bustling markets thronging with travellers buying and selling grapes, coriander, Baltic amber, and Mediterranean coral. Along this route, silks were sent from China to ancient Rome; princesses were dispatched in marriage alliances across the deserts; bandits and thieves launched attacks throughout history.[via]
Covering more than 5,000 years, this book, lavishly illustrated with photographs, manuscripts, and paintings from the collections of the British Library and other museums worldwide, presents an overall picture of the history and cultures of the Silk Road. It also contains many previously unpublished photographs by the great explorers Stein, Hedin, and Mannerheim.
More than just a trade route, the Silk Road witnessed the movement of cultural influences. Frances Wood traces the story of the civilizations and ideas that flourished and moved along its vast geographical expanse. Indian Buddhism was carried into China on the Silk Road, initiating a long history of pilgrimages along the lonely desert routes; Manichaeism, Nestorian Christianity, and Islam also made their way eastwards along its route.
The nineteenth century saw a new interest in Central Asia and the Silk Road, as Russia and Britain vied for power on the frontiers of Afghanistan. A new breed of explorer, part archaeologist, part cartographer, part spy, was seen on the Silk Road, while some of the ancient cities, long buried in sand-blown dunes, began to give up their secrets. This book brings the history of the Silk Road alive--from its beginnings to the present day, revealing a rich history still in the making.More editions of The Silk Road: Two Thousand Years in the Heart of Asia:
Silk Road/La Ruta de la Sedaby Bertram Job, Alessandra MeniconziISBN 389985327X (3-89985-327-X)
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The Silk Roads: A Route and Planning Guideby Paul Wilson, Dominic StreatfeildISBN 1873756534 (1-873756-53-4)
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Silk Roads and Shadowsby Susan ShwartzISBN 0812554116 (0-8125-5411-6)
Softcover, Tor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Silk Roads and Shadows'Book summary:Alexandra, sister of the dying Emperor of Byzantium, undertakes a mission to smuggle live silkworms from the mysterious Empire of Ch'in. Hounded by ferocious sorcery and an array of magical helpers, she must walk the length of the known world to save an empire threatened by her very existence. [via]
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Silk Roads, China Ships: An Exhibition of East-West Tradeby John E. Vollmer, E.J. Keall, E. Nagal-BerthrongISBN 0888543018 (0-88854-301-8)
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The Tartar Khan's Englishmanby Gabriel RonayISBN 184212210X (1-84212-210-X)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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Tournament of Shadows: The Great Game and the Race for Empire in Central Asiaby Shareen Blair Brysac, Karl Ernest MeyerISBN 158243106X (1-58243-106-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tournament of Shadows: The Great Game and the Race for Empire in Central Asia'Book summary:Throughout the 19th century and well into the 20th, the Russian and British Empires played out a chess game of diplomacy, espionage, and military thrusts into Central Asia to protect their expanding interests. When play began, the frontiers of their empires lay 2,000 miles apart, across vast deserts and almost impassable mountain ranges; by the end, they were separated by only 20 miles. Karl E. Meyer of The New York Times and Shareen Blair Brysac, documentary filmmaker for CBS, update and significantly expand earlier studies of the imperial rivalry, notably Peter Hopkirk's pioneering The Great Game. Tournament of Shadows reads like a racy adventure story, yet there is no need for the authors to embellish their well-researched facts. The region attracted a host of bizarre characters, each with his own idiosyncratic goals. The authors begin with the journey to Bokhara of an ambitious horse doctor, hired by the East India Company in 1806 to improve its breeding stock, and end with the CIA's assistance to anti-Chinese guerrillas in Tibet during the cold war. American participants in the opening of Central Asia have not previously received much attention, but Tournament of Shadows introduces adventurers such as William Rockhill, commissioned by the Smithsonian Institution in the 1880s to explore Tibet, and William McGovern, who, to the chagrin of the British, reached Lhasa in 1923. The wealth and instability of Central Asia continue to keep the region in the headlines, motivating the Soviet Union's disastrous 10-year intervention in Afghanistan and fueling an international race for resources--especially oil--today. --John Stevenson [via]
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Tournament of Shadows: The Great Game And the Race for Empire in Central Asiaby Karl Meyer, Sharleen Blair BrysacISBN 0465045766 (0-465-04576-6)
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Travelsby Marco PoloISBN 3895084530 (3-89508-453-0)
Hardcover, Koenemann Verlagsgesellschaft
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The Travels of Marco Poloby Marco PoloISBN 1853264733 (1-85326-473-3)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Travels of Marco Polo'Book summary:It was perhaps the first book to achieve best-seller status before the invention of the printing press-it was certainly the most controversial. Did Venetian trader and explorer MARCO POLO (1254-1324) actually reach the court of Kublai Khan, serve the emperor as his emissary, and journey the distant lands of Cathay for 17 years, as he relates in his Travels of Marco Polo? The question still hasn't quite been settled today... but whether Polo experienced firsthand the wonders of ancient China, retold tales he heard from Arab travelers along the Silk Road, or simply invented half his stories, this remains a delightful read for fans of history, adventure, and medieval literature. [via]
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Softcover, Random House Inc - The Travels Of Marco Polo: ISBN 0451529510 (0-451-52951-0)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - The Travels Of Marco Polo: ISBN 0460113062 (0-460-11306-2)
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Softcover, Liveright Pub Corp - The Travels of Marco Polo: ISBN 0415344875 (0-415-34487-5)
Hardcover, Routledge - The Travels of Marco Polo: ISBN 0760765898 (0-7607-6589-8)
Softcover, Barnes & Noble Books - The Travels of Marco Polo: ISBN 0871406578 (0-87140-657-8)
Hardcover, Liveright Publishing Corporation - The Travels of Marco Polo: ISBN 0898350581 (0-89835-058-1)
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The Travels of Marco Poloby Henri Cordier, Marco Polo, Henry YuleISBN 0486275868 (0-486-27586-8)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Travels of Marco Poloby Milton RugoffISBN 0451517172 (0-451-51717-2)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Travels of Marco Polo'Book summary:First published in 1931. None of the manuscripts which have come down to us represents the original form of Marco Polo's narrative, but it is clear that certain texts are closer to the lost original than others. Entrusted with the task of preparing a new Italian edition of Marco Polo, Benedetto discovered many unknown manuscripts. He carefully edited the most famous of the manuscripts (the Geographic text) and collated it with the other best known ones.
· An invaluable index has been added to Aldo Ricci's of Benedetto's text, which includes all the identifications made in the Geographic text and also later editions by Marsden (1818), Pauthier (1865) and Yule (1871).
· The difficulty of following Polo on his many journeys has also been simplified by the process of distinguishing between those places on his main route to China and his return journey by sea to Persia and those places which he visited during his stay in China and those he never visited at all.
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The Travels of Marco Poloby Ronald LethamISBN 0140440577 (0-14-044057-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Travels of Marco Polo'Book summary:Marco Polo was the most famous traveller of his time. His voyages began in 1271 with a visit to China, after which he served the Kubilai Khan on numerous diplomatic missions. On his return to the West, he was made a prisoner of war and met Rustichello of Pisa, with whom he collaborated on this book. The accounts of his travels provide a fascinating glimpse of the different societies he encountered: their religions, customs, ceremonies and way of life; on the spices and silks of the East; on precious gems, exotic vegetation and wild beasts. He tells the story of the holy shoemaker, the wicked caliph and the three kings, among a great many others, evoking a remote and long-vanished world with colour and immediacy. [via]
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The Travels of Marco Poloby Teresa Waugh, Marco Polo, Maria BellonciISBN 0871968908 (0-87196-890-8)
Hardcover, Facts on File
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· An invaluable index has been added to Aldo Ricci's of Benedetto's text, which includes all the identifications made in the Geographic text and also later editions by Marsden (1818), Pauthier (1865) and Yule (1871).
· The difficulty of following Polo on his many journeys has also been simplified by the process of distinguishing between those places on his main route to China and his return journey by sea to Persia and those places which he visited during his stay in China and those he never visited at all.
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Uzbekistanby Calum MacLeodISBN 9622177433 (962-217-743-3)
Softcover, Odyssey Publications, Limited
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Uzbekistan: The Golden Road to Samarkandby Calum MacLeod, Bradley MayhewISBN 9622177034 (962-217-703-4)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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We're Riding on a Caravan: An Adventure on the Silk Roadby Laurie Krebs, Helen CannISBN 1841483435 (1-84148-343-5)
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Marco Polo y la Ruta de la Sedaby Jean-Pierre DregeISBN 8440695446 (84-406-9544-6)
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El Viajero/the Journeyerby Gary JenningsISBN 8432038040 (84-320-3804-0)
Softcover, Planeta Pub Corp
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