TY  - BOOK
AU  - Clements,Jonathan 
TI  - SILK ROAD : BIOGRAPHY : From Prehistory to the Present
SN  - 9789385755040
U1  - 910.4 
PY  - 2016////01/01
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - Speaking Tiger
KW  - Travel History
KW  - Geography
KW  - Economic history
KW  - China
KW  - Asia
KW  - International economic relations
KW  - Regionalism
KW  - Finance
KW  - International economic integration
KW  - International finance
N1  - The Silk Road is not a place, but a journey, a route from the edges of the Mediterranean to the central plains of China, through high mountains and inhospitable deserts.  For thousands of years its history has been a travellers history, of brief encounters in desert towns, snowbound passes and nameless forts.  It was the conduit that first brought buddhism, christianity and Islam into China, and the site of much of the 'Great Game' between nineteenth-century empires.  Today, its central section encompasses several former Soviet republics, and the Chinese Autonomous Region of Xinjiang.  The ancient trade route controversially crosses the sites of several forgotten kingdoms, buried in sand and only now revealing their secrets.


The Silk Road : A A Biography not only offers the reader a chronological outline of the regions development, but also provides an invaluable introduction to its languages, literature and arts.  It takes a comprehensive and illuminating look at the rich history of this dynamic and little-known region, and provides an easy-to use reference source
ER  -