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Title:

Traveling the Silk Road : ancient pathway to the modern world / Mark Norell, Denise Patry Leidy & the American Museum of Natural History with Laura Ross.

Publisher:

Sterling Pub.,

Copyright Date:

c2011

Description:

260 p. : col. ill., col. maps (some fold.) ; 24 x 26 cm.

Subject:

Trade routes--Asia--History.
Silk Road--History.
Silk Road--Description and travel.
Silk Road--History, Local.

Other Authors:

Norell, Mark.
Leidy, Denise Patry.
Ross, Laura, 1956-
American Museum of Natural History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Brief history of the Silk Road -- Xi'an : city of peace -- Turfan : oasis in the desert -- Samarkand : city of merchants -- Baghdad : city of scholars -- Extensions : Istanbul and the sea.

Summary:

A history of the legendary Silk Road and the cultural pathway it blazed for the modern world.

ISBN:

1402781377 (alk. paper)
9781402781377 (alk. paper)

LCCN:

2011006192

Locations:

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)