The Silk Road: A New History with Documents by Valerie Hansen

The Silk Road: A New History with Documents

Valerie Hansen

496 pages first pub 2011 (view editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
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The Silk Road is iconic in world history; but what was it, exactly? It conjures up a hazy image of a caravan of camels laden with silk on a dusty desert track, reaching from China to Rome. The reality was different--and far more interesting. In Th...

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