The Silk Road: A New History by Valerie Hansen

The Silk Road: A New History

Valerie Hansen

320 pages first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
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The Silk Road is as iconic in world history as the Colossus of Rhodes or the Suez Canal. But what was it, exactly? It conjures up a hazy image of a caravan of camels laden with silk on a dusty desert track, reaching from China to Rome. The reality...

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