Ruins of desert Cathay

Description

"The Hungarian born Aurel Stein was a British archaeologist and geographer noted for his pioneering exploration of Central Asia. This is an account of his second major expedition, from 1906-8. Returning to Khotan, Stein extended his original explorations farther eastwards for nearly a thousand miles. It was on this expedition that Stein explored the western end of the Great Wall of China and discovered the Cave of the Thousand Buddhas at Tun-Huang, where he made his greatest discovery of a vast library in a cave sealed since the 10th century. He removed thousands of documents including a copy of the Diamond Sutra whose date makes it the earliest printed book."--abebooks website.

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Other Editions

• Ruins of desert Cathay: personal narrative of explorations in Central Asia and westernmost ChinaMacmillan and co., limited1912-01-01
• Ruins of desert CathayDover Publications1987
• Ruins of desert CathayMacmillan1912-01-01
• Ruins of desert CathayMacmillan1912-01-01
• Ruins of desert Cathay.B. Blom1968-01-01
• Ruins of desert CathayB. Blom1968-01-01
• Ruins of Desert CathayB.R. Pub. Corp.1985-01-01