Description: Further DetailsTitle: Central AsiaCondition: NewEAN: 9781906011840ISBN: 9781906011840Publisher: Eland Publishing LtdFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 01/09/2014Item Height: 216mmItem Length: 138mmContributor: Kathleen Hopkirk (Edited by)Author: Kathleen HopkirkLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: Through Writers' EyesDescription: Between these covers, the millennia of mercantile and cultural exchange along the Silk Route are celebrated by travellers and writers from Marco Polo to Sven Hedin, from William of Rubrick to Ella Maillart. Kathleen Hopkirk has spent a lifetime researching this vital heartland, traversed by five, inhospitable deserts but united by ancient chains of trading oases: from the Buddhist Empire of Kushan, to the scholarly Islamic centre at Bukhara, from the military conquerors massing in both directions to the saintly missionaries and monks who moved between its centres of learning. This mysterious homeland of the Tartars, Turks, Mongols, Uzbeks, Uighurs, Tajiks, Scythians and Sarmatians, gave the world terrifying conquerors of the stature of Gengiz Khan and Tamberlane. Later it became the focus of the Great Game, a rivalry for influence in the area between the empires of Russia and Britain played out by spies, ambassadors, agents and travel writers for 150 years, itself a continuation of the old cultural rivalry between Persia and China for the soul of this vast region.Country/Region of Manufacture: GBGenre: Travel & TransportRelease Year: 2014 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: Central Asia
Title: Central Asia
EAN: 9781906011840
ISBN: 9781906011840
Release Date: 01/09/2014
Release Year: 2014
Item Height: 216mm
Contributor: Kathleen Hopkirk (Edited by)
Subtitle: Through Writers' Eyes
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Book Title: Central Asia Through Writers' Eyes
Number of Pages: 336 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Eland Publishing The Limited
Publication Year: 2014
Topic: Asia / Central Asia, Asia / Central, Security (National & International)
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Travel, Political Science, History
Author: Kathleen Hopkirk
Item Length: 8.5 in
Item Width: 5.4 in
Format: Trade Paperback
