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Author Gordon, Stewart, 1945- author.

Title When Asia was the world : traveling merchants, scholars, warriors, and monks who created the "riches of the east" / Stewart Gordon.

Publication Info. Old Saybrook, Conn. : Tantor Media, [2018]
℗2018

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Location Call No. Status
 Simsbury Public Library - Audio Materials  CD 950 GORDON    Check Shelf
Edition Unabridged.
Description 5 audio discs (5 hr., 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
digital optical 1.4 m. per second Digital recording rda
audio file CD audio rda
Note In container (17 cm.).
Title from container.
Compact disc.
Performer Narrated by Derek Perkins.
Summary While European intellectual, cultural, and commercial life stagnated during the early medieval period, Asia flourished as the wellspring of science, philosophy, and religion. Linked together by a web of religious, commercial, and intellectual connections, the different regions of Asia's vast civilization, from Arabia to China, hummed with commerce, international diplomacy, and the brisk exchange of ideas. Stewart Gordon has fashioned a look at Asia from A.D. 700 to 1500, a time when Asia was the world, by describing the personal journeys of Asia's many travelers--the merchants who traded spices along the Silk Road, the apothecaries who exchanged medicine and knowledge from China to the Middle East, and the philosophers and holy men who crossed continents to explore and exchange ideas, books, science, and culture.
Subject Travelers -- Asia.
History.
Asia -- Description and travel.
Asia -- Civilization.
HISTORY -- General.
Civilization. (OCoLC)fst00862898
History. (OCoLC)fst00958235
Travel. (OCoLC)fst01155558
Travelers. (OCoLC)fst01155691
Asia. (OCoLC)fst01240495
Genre/Form Audiobooks.
Audiobooks. (OCoLC)fst01726208
Added Author Perkins, Derek, narrator.
Tantor Media.
Recorded Books, Inc.
ISBN 9781541415676
1541415671
Music No. DD37504 Recorded Books
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