著者名：

Wood, Frances

出版元：

U. of California Pr.

頁数：

270p. illus maps 古書

刊行年：

2002

ISBN：

0520243404

Silk Road -- History -- Trade routes

Covering more than 5,000 years, this book, lavishly illustrated with photographs, manuscripts, and paintings from the collections of the British Library and other museums worldwide, presents an overall picture of the history and cultures of the Silk Road. It also contains many previously unpublished photographs by the great explores Stein, Hedin, and Mannerheim.

'A ceaselessly flowing stream of life' --
Coiled dragons and filmy fleeces : jade and silk --
From Greece and Rome to China -- and back again --
A people abandoned by heaven : the Xiongnu and trade during the Han dynasty --
The spread of trade and religions : Tocharians and Sogdians --
The fashion for all things Central Asian --
The caves of the thousand buddhas : Buddhism on the Silk Road --
Tanguts, Mongols, Nestorians and Marco Polo --
A parterre of roses : travellers to Ming China and Samarkand --
The great game and the Silk Road --
Asia held them captive in her cold embrace : explorers on the Silk Road --
Trophies and tiger entrails : hunting and theorising on the Silk Road --
Securing specimens : Aurel Stein --
An end to excavation : Pelliot, von Le Coq and Warner --
The baby general : travel on the Silk Road in the 1930s --
Epilogue: The Silk Road today

No.

17788

価格：

2,699円