Catalog Search Results
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
xv, 304 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The Silk Road is as iconic in world history as the Colossus of Rhodes or the Suez Canal. 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-as revealed in this new history. In The Silk Road, Valerie Hansen describes the remarkable archeological finds that revolutionize our understanding of these trade routes....
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
Physical Desc
324 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
An acclaimed bioarchaeologist traces the path of an ancient piece of jewelry found in a Viking grave in England back to eighth-century Baghdad and India, explaining that the Vikings' route may have been far more varied than previously known.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Our world was made on and by the Silk Roads. For millennia it was here that East and West encountered each other through trade and conquest, leading to the spread of ideas and cultures, the birth of the world's great religions, the appetites for foreign goods that drove economies and the growth of nations. From the first cities in Mesopotamia to the growth of Greece and Rome to the depredations by the Mongols and the Black Death to the Great Game...
Author
Publisher
Catapult
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First imprint edition.
Physical Desc
314 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In the late nineteenth century, a group of German-speaking Mennonites traveled from Russia into Central Asia, where their charismatic leader predicted Christ would return. Over a century later, Sofia Samatar joins a tour following their path, fascinated not by the hardships of their journey, but by its aftermath: the establishment of a small Christian village in the Muslim Khanate of Khiva. Named Ak Metchet, "The White Mosque," after the Mennonites'...
10) The silk road
Publisher
Central Park Media
Pub. Date
c2000
Edition
10th anniversary limited ed.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (630 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A panoramic tour examining the world's most historic and inaccessible locations, Silk Road escorts the viewer on the ancient path travelled by Marco Polo, linking the riches of China with the European markets of the Middle Ages.
Author
Series
Very short introductions volume 351
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
xv, 152 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
The phrase "silk road" possibly evokes scenes of merchants leading camel caravans across vast stretches to trade exotic goods in Oriental bazaars, of pilgrims braving bandits and frozen mountain passes to spread their faith across Asia. Looking at the reality behind these images, this Very Short Introduction reveals the historical background against which the silk road flourished, shedding light on the importance of old-world cultural exchange to...
In Commonwealth Catalog
Didn't find what you need? Items not owned by Cape Libraries Automated Materials Sharing Network can be requested from other Commonwealth Catalog libraries to be delivered to your local library for pickup.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Purchase Suggestion Service. Submit Request