03677cam a2200637 i 4500001000800000005001700008008004100025010001700066019001300083020002800096020002500124024001800149035002000167040003300187043001200220050002300232082001400255100003600269245004600305250002400351264005500375264001100430300003100441336002600472337002800498338002700526500002000553505020000573520090800773520042501681630001502106630003302121650004202154650001802196650001802214650001202232651001602244651001102260651002302271651002202294651001502316651001902331651002702350651003402377651003902411651001002450651001702460651003902477655002702516655002602543776013102569856009102700856010902791856009402900900004502994807158420191001105632.0061103t20072007nyub 001 0 eng  a 20060521421 a41057127 a9780061231728qhardback a006123172Xqhardback3 a9780061231728 a(OCoLC)76143564 aDLCbengerdacDLCdDLCdANL aac-----00aDS327.7b.T48 200700a915.82221 aThubron, Colin,d1939-eauthor.10aShadow of the Silk Road /cColin Thubron. aFirst U.S. edition. 1aNew York, NY :bHarper Collins Publishers,c[2007] 4a©2007 a363 pages :bmaps ;c24 cm atextbtxt2rdacontent aunmediatedbn2rdamedia avolumebnc2rdacarrier aIncludes index.0 aDawn -- The capital -- Mantra -- The last gate under heaven -- The Southern road -- Kashgar -- The mountain passage -- To Samarkand -- Over the Oxus -- Mourning -- The Mongol peace -- To Antioch.1 a"Shadow of the Silk Road records a journey along the greatest land route on earth. Out of the heart of China into the mountains of Central Asia, across northern Afghanistan and the plains of Iran and into Kurdish Turkey, Colin Thubron covers some seven thousand miles in eight months. Making his way by local bus, truck, car, donkey cart and camel, he travels from the tomb of the Yellow Emperor, the mythic progenitor of the Chinese people, to the ancient port of Antioch - in perhaps the most difficult and ambitious journey he has undertaken in forty years of travel." "The Silk Road is a huge network of arteries splitting and converging across the breadth of Asia. To travel it is to trace the passage not only of trade and armies but also of ideas, religions and inventions. But alongside this rich and astonishing past, Shadow of the Silk Road is also about Asia today: a continent of upheaval.".8 a"Shadow of the Silk Road encounters Islamic countries in many forms. It is about changes in China, transformed since the Cultural Revolution. It is about false nationalisms and the world's discontented margins, where the true boundaries are not political borders but the frontiers of tribe, ethnicity, language and religion. It is a magnificent and important account of an ancient world in modern ferment."--BOOK JACKET.07aChina2gnd07aChinagZusammenstellung2gnd 0aTrade routeszAsia, CentralxHistory. 7aTravel.2fast 4aTravel Essay. 4aTurkey. 7aChina.2gnd 4aChina. 7aZentralasien.2gnd 7aAfghanistan.2gnd 7aIran.2gnd 7aTürkei.2gnd 7aAsiazSilk Road.2fast 4aAsiaxDescription and travel. 4aSilk RoadxDescription and travel. 4aIran. 4aAfghanistan. 0aSilk RoadxDescription and travel. 7aTravel writing.2lcgft 7aTravel writing.2fast08iOnline versionaThubron, Colin, 1939-tShadow of the Silk Road.b1st U.S. ed.dNew York, NY : Harper Collins Publishers, c2007423Publisher descriptionuhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0911/2006052142-d.html423Contributor biographical informationuhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0911/2006052142-b.html423Publisher descriptionuhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0911/2006052142-d.html aDonated by Mr. John Withell, April 2019.