Mapping the Silk Road and Beyond

Author: Kenneth Nebenzahl
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Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0714863203

Mapping the Silk Road and Beyond: 2,000 Years of Exploring the East

Today the world is focusing unprecedented attention on Asia and the Middle East - rediscovering a cultural, political, and geographical landscape that has fascinated and frustrated Westerners since the time of Alexander the Great. Download Mapping the Silk Road and Beyond: 2,000 Years of Exploring the East from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. br>
Mapping the Silk Road and Beyond traces the history of the European age of exploration and its lasting effects on these regions through an extensive series of beautifully rendered and imaginative maps drawn by explorers, merchants, and colonial administrators of the time. The book focuses on both maritime exploration and overland discovery via the ancient Silk Road: a network of trading posts that encompassed China, Tibet, Pakistan, India, Kurdistan, Iraq, Ethiopia, Eritrea, and dozens of other places Search and find a lot of education books in many category availabe for free download.

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