The Silk Road Read By Sven Hedin
| Title | : | The Silk Road |
| Author | : | Sven Hedin |
| Format | : | Paperback |
| Page | : | 344 pages |
| ISBN | : | 1845118987 |
Linking East and West, Asia with Europe, the Silk Road was once the most important trading route in the world A conduit for the exchange of prized silks, spices and jewels as well as philosophies, cultures and religions, the Silk Road was a catalyst for the rise and fall of some of the greatest civilizations in history This second titlein the trilogy The War, The Road a Linking East and West, Asia with Europe, the Silk Road was once the most important trading route in the world A conduit for the exchange of prized silks, spices and jewels as well as philosophies, cultures and religions, the Silk Road was a catalyst for the rise and fall of some of the greatest civilizations in history This second title in the trilogy The War, The Road and The Lake this is the account of Sven Hedin s 10,000 mile journey along the ancient Silk Road, as he carried out a mission for the Chinese to create a road linking China with the rogue province of Xinjiang Forbidden by the government to conduct archaeological investigations, Hedin ignored the restriction and was imprisoned for it, but the research that he brought back with him has formed the basis of much of the West s knowledge of the Silk Road and its history Today, as waves of tourists tread its abandoned routes and explore its ruined caravanserais, they follow in the footsteps of this original Silk Road explorer
about Author
Sven Hedin was a Swedish geographer, topographer, explorer, photographer, travel writer, and illustrator of his own works During four expeditions to Central Asia, he discovered the Transhimalaya once named the Hedin Range in his honor and the sources of the Brahmaputra, Indus and Sutlej Rivers, Lake Lop Nur, and the remains of cities, grave sites and the Great Wall of China in the deserts of th Sven Hedin was a Swedish geographer, topographer, explorer, photographer, travel writer, and illustrator of his own works During four expeditions to Central Asia, he discovered the Transhimalaya once named the Hedin Range in his honor and the sources of the Brahmaputra, Indus and Sutlej Rivers, Lake Lop Nur, and the remains of cities, grave sites and the Great Wall of China in the deserts of the Tarim Basin In his book Fr n Pol till Pol, Hedin describes a journey through Asia and Europe between the late 1880s and early 1900s While traveling, Hedin visited Constantinople Istanbul , oil rich Azerbaijan in times of the Nobel Brothers, Teheran, Mesopotamia Iraq , lands of the Kyrgyz people, India, China, Asiatic Russia and Japan 
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Linking East and West, Asia with Europe, the Silk Road was once the most important trading route in the world A conduit for the exchange of prized sil
344 pagesSven Hedin
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