Journeys on the Silk Road
a desert explorer, Buddha's secret library, and the unearthing of the world's oldest printed book
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Author
Contributions
- Walters, Conrad - Contributor
Publication
2012 - Lyons Press, Guilford, Conn, Connecticut
Language
English
Word Count
81,250 words, Guess
Page Count
325 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivejourneysonsilkro00morg_174
- ISBN-139780762782970
- ISBN-100762782978
- Library of Congress Control Number2012026262
- OCLC Control Number783147143
and 2 more
- Better World Books9780762782970
- Open LibraryOL25384648M
Classifications
- DDC909/.09821
- LCCCB251 .M6375 2012
- LCCCB251.M6375 2012
Description
The Silk Road once linked China with the Mediterranean. It conveyed merchants, pilgrims and ideas; but its cultures and oases were swallowed by shifting sands. Central to the Silk Road's rediscovery was a man named Aurel Stein, a Hungarian-born scholar and archaeologist employed by the British service. When a Chinese monk broke into a hidden cave in 1900 and uncovered scrolls undisturbed for a thousand years, Stein secured the scrolls, the Diamond Sutra of AD 868. This is the story of the scrolls, and their journey to London.
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- Journeys on the Silk Road: a desert explorer, Buddha's secret library, and the unearthing of the world's oldest printed book
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