| Description |
280 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm. |
| Series |
A Studio book
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| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages [268]-270. |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
Alexander the Great : an invader from the West -- Hsuan-tsang : a pilgrim from the East -- Mahomet and Kutayba, the Sword of Islam -- Jenghiz Khan : the Mongols in Central Asia -- The princes of Christendom : panic in the West -- William of Rubruck : a friar from the West -- The Polos and Ibn Battuta : four intrepid travellers -- Tamerlane : his triumph and death -- Timurid princes and the fifteenth-century Renaissance -- Babur : a soldier of sensibility -- Anthony Jenkinson : an Englishman reaches Central Asia -- Dr. Joseph Wolff, the 'Grand Derveesh of Englistaun' -- Aurel Stein and the Caves of the Thousand Buddhas |
| Subject |
Asia, Central -- History.
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Asia, Central -- Description and travel.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Blunt, Wilfrid, 1901-1987. Golden road to Samarkand. New York : Viking Press, 1973 (OCoLC)646851889 |
| ISBN |
0670344389: $6.95 |
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9780670344383 |
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