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Foreign Devils on the Silk Road: The Search for the Lost Cities and Treasures of Chinese Central ...

Peter Hopkirk

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Feb 10, 2012 Philip rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: central-asia, 4-stars, desert, 1980s, china-general, exploration, biography-themed, oxford-university-press

Another excellent Hopkirk book, but not my favorite. While a collection of his usual great stories about a great cast of adventurers and explorers, it lacks the geopolitical underpinnings of the other books in this remarkable series. Still there's no such thing as "bad Hopkirk;" it's just that some is better than others, (my old roommate used to say the same thing about sex, haha). ...more

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