| Descript |
viii, 325 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., map ; 24 cm |
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Originally published: Sydney : Picador, 2011 |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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The Great Race -- Signs of wonder -- The listening post -- The moon and the mail -- The Angels' Sanctuary -- City of sands -- Tricks and trust -- Key to the cave -- The hidden gem -- The thieves' road -- Affliction in the orchard -- Frozen -- Yesterday, having drunk too much -- Stormy debut -- Treasure hunters -- Hangman's Hill -- Facets of a jewel -- Shifting sands -- Scroll forward |
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The Silk Road once linked China with the Mediterranean. It conveyed merchants, pilgrims and ideas; but its cultures and oases were swallowed by shifting sands. Central to the Silk Road's rediscovery was a man named Aurel Stein, a Hungarian-born scholar and archaeologist employed by the British service. When a Chinese monk broke into a hidden cave in 1900 and uncovered scrolls undisturbed for a thousand years, Stein secured the scrolls, the Diamond Sutra of AD 868. This is the story of the scrolls, and their journey to London |
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Sidenvägen -- historia
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Asien -- Centralasien
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Handelsvägar
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Tripiṭaka. Sūtrapiṭaka. Prajñāpāramitā. Vajracchedikā. Chinese
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Trade routes -- China
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East and West
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Buddhist literature -- Influence -- Western civilization
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Buddhism -- Influence -- Western civilization
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Buddhism -- China -- History -- 20th century
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Silk Road
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| Classmark |
909.09821
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Noea
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| Alt Auth |
Walters, Conrad
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| ISBN/ISSN |
9780762782970 |
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