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The Silk Road: Central Asia, Afghanistan and Iran

A Travel Companion

The Silk Road: Central Asia, Afghanistan and Iran( )
Author: Tucker, Jonathan
Introduction by: Theroux, Paul
Theroux, Paul
ISBN:978-1-78076-925-7
Publication Date:Mar 2015
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:I. B. Tauris
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $25.00
Book Description:

Stretching from the ancient Chinese capital of Xian across the expanses of Central Asia to Rome, the Silk Road was, for 1,500 years, a vibrant network of arteries that carried the lifeblood of nations across the world. Along a multitude of routes everything was exchanged: exotic goods, art, knowledge, religion, philosophy, disease and war. From the East came silk, precious stones, tea, jade, paper, porcelain, spices and cotton; from the West, horses, weapons, wool and linen, aromatics,...
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Book Details
Pages:240
Detailed Subjects: Business & Economics / Commerce
History / Asia / General
Travel / Asia / Central
Travel / Middle East / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.39 x 8.59 x 0.77 Inches
Book Weight:0.703 Pounds
Author Biography
Tucker, Jonathan (Author)
Paul Edward Theroux was born on April 10, 1941 in Medford, Massachusetts and is an acclaimed travel writer. After attending the University of Massachusetts Amherst he joined the Peace Corps and taught in Malawi from 1963 to 1965. He also taught in Uganda at Makerere University and in Singapore at the University of Singapore.

Although Theroux has also written travel books in general and about various modes of transport, his name is synonymous with the literature of train travel. Theroux's 1975 best-seller, The Great Railway Bazaar, takes the reader through Asia, while his second book about train travel, The Old Patagonian Express (1979), describes his trip from Boston to the tip of South America. His third contribution to the railway travel genre, Riding the Iron Rooster: By Train Through China, won the Thomas Cook Prize for best literary travel book in 1989. His literary output also includes novels, books for children, short stories, articles, and poetry. His novels include Picture Palace (1978), which won the Whitbread Award and The Mosquito Coast (1981), which won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Theroux is a fellow of both the British Royal Society of Literature and the Royal Geographic Society. His title Lower River made The New York Times Best Seller List for 2012. Currently his 2015 book, Deep South , is a bestseller.

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