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The Silk Road: A New History Hansen, Valerie (Professor of History, Professor of History, Yale University)
The Silk Road: A New History
Hansen, Valerie (Professor of History, Professor of History, Yale University)
The Silk Road conjures up an image a lone traveler carrying silk as he sits atop a camel and moves along a desert highway. This book offers concrete evidence for what he was really carrying and where he was heading, looking at the key sites along the multiple silk roads, using newly discovered documents preserved in the sands of the Taklamakan Desert.
328 pages, 61 b/w halftones, 19 color
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | October 22, 2015 |
| ISBN13 | 9780190218423 |
| Publishers | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Genre | Cultural Region > Chinese |
| Pages | 328 |
| Dimensions | 233 × 155 × 25 mm · 520 g |