Silk Road: Monks, Warriors & Merchants

by Luce Boulnois, Bradley Mayhew (Editor)

Overview

Luce Boulnois has poured a lifetime of prodigious, passionate scholarship into this seminal book. She explores the encounter between East and West across the vast continental expanse that separates the Mediterranean world from the Chinese one. She unravel

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789622178243
Publisher:	Odyssey Books & Maps
Publication date:	07/01/2012
Series:	Odyssey Illustrated Guides Series
Edition description:	Updated Edition
Pages:	584
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.20(h) x 1.30(d)

About the Author

World-renowned French historian Luce Boulnois (deceased) researched Chinese and Russian archives to unravel the Silk Road's mysteries.

Bradley Mayhew was born in Sevenoaks, Kent in 1970 and currently lives in Yellowstone County, Montana, USA. A degree in Oriental Studies (Chinese) at Oxford University kickstarted 20 years of independent travel in the remoter corners of Asia, and a career writing guidebooks. He is the author or co-author of Lonely Planet guides to Central Asia, Tibet, Bhutan, Nepal and many others and is a major contributor to the Insight Guide to the Silk Road. Bradley has lectured on Central Asia to the Royal Geographical Society and recently traveled across Asia in the footsteps of Marco Polo for a five-hour French-German TV documentary.