A Short History of the Silk Road

Haus Publishing

A History of the Silk Road\nby Jonathan Clements\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nDelivery\nUsually delivered in 6\u20137 working days.\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Jonathan Clements\nTitle: A History of the Silk Road\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Asian history\nPublisher: Haus Publishing\nPublication year: 2017\nISBN-13: 9781909961371\nISBN-10: 190996137X\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nThe Silk Road is a route from the edges of the European world to the central plains of China. For thousands of years, its history has been a traveller's history, of brief encounters in desert towns, snowbound passes and nameless forts. It was the conduit that first brought Buddhism, Christianity and Islam into China, and the site of much of the 'Great Game' between Victorian empires. Jonathan Clements guides the .