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Silk Road Books
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The Silk Roads: A New History of the World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 49,261 ratings — published 2015
Shadow of the Silk Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as silk-road)
avg rating 3.79 — 4,469 ratings — published 2007
The Silk Road: A New History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as silk-road)
avg rating 3.77 — 865 ratings — published 2012
Empires of the Silk Road: A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as silk-road)
avg rating 3.59 — 821 ratings — published 2009
Life Along the Silk Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as silk-road)
avg rating 3.71 — 513 ratings — published 1999
Foreign Devils on the Silk Road: The Search for the Lost Cities and Treasures of Chinese Central Asia (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as silk-road)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,575 ratings — published 1980
Sovietistan: Travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as silk-road)
avg rating 4.28 — 8,628 ratings — published 2014
The Silk Road: Two Thousand Years in the Heart of Asia (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as silk-road)
avg rating 3.71 — 185 ratings — published 2002
The Silk Road in World History (New Oxford World History)
by (shelved 7 times as silk-road)
avg rating 3.74 — 238 ratings — published 2010
Religions of the Silk Road: Overland Trade and Cultural Exchange from Antiquity to the Fifteenth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as silk-road)
avg rating 3.82 — 195 ratings — published 1999
Silk Road (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as silk-road)
avg rating 4.28 — 11,290 ratings — published 2000
The Silk Road Journey with Xuanzang (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as silk-road)
avg rating 3.96 — 139 ratings — published 1996
Journeys on the Silk Road: A Desert Explorer, Buddha's Secret Library, and the Unearthing of the World's Oldest Printed Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as silk-road)
avg rating 3.91 — 469 ratings — published 2011
The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia (Kodansha Globe)
by (shelved 5 times as silk-road)
avg rating 4.33 — 9,220 ratings — published 1990
A Carpet Ride to Khiva: Seven Years on the Silk Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as silk-road)
avg rating 4.07 — 845 ratings — published 2010
Lands of Lost Borders: Out of Bounds on the Silk Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as silk-road)
avg rating 3.87 — 6,071 ratings — published 2018
Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as silk-road)
avg rating 3.85 — 3,293 ratings — published
The Lost Heart of Asia (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as silk-road)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,626 ratings — published 1994
The Silk Road: Xi'an to Kashgar (Odyssey Illustrated Guides)
by (shelved 4 times as silk-road)
avg rating 4.00 — 29 ratings — published 1988
The Road to Oxiana (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as silk-road)
avg rating 3.90 — 3,418 ratings — published 1937
American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as silk-road)
avg rating 4.41 — 54,142 ratings — published 2017
Lost Enlightenment: Central Asia's Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as silk-road)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,267 ratings — published 2013
The Empire of the Steppes: A History of Central Asia (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as silk-road)
avg rating 4.11 — 362 ratings — published 1939
Samarkand (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as silk-road)
avg rating 4.24 — 31,860 ratings — published 1988
Night Sky Dragons (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as silk-road)
avg rating 3.96 — 118 ratings — published 2014
Silk Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as silk-road)
avg rating 3.85 — 244 ratings — published 1989
On the Trail of Genghis Khan: An Epic Journey Through the Land of the Nomads (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as silk-road)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,042 ratings — published 2013
Silk Road: Monks, Warriors & Merchants (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as silk-road)
avg rating 3.70 — 130 ratings — published 1964
A Bride's Story, Vol. 1 (A Bride's Story, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as silk-road)
avg rating 4.23 — 9,692 ratings — published 2009
Restless Valley: Revolution, Murder, and Intrigue in the Heart of Central Asia (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as silk-road)
avg rating 4.11 — 258 ratings — published 2013
Silk, Slaves, and Stupas: Material Culture of the Silk Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as silk-road)
avg rating 3.62 — 24 ratings — published
The Silk Road - Central Asia, Afghanistan and Iran: A Travel Companion (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as silk-road)
avg rating 3.40 — 30 ratings — published 2015
Murder in Samarkand: A British Ambassador's Controversial Defiance of Tyranny in the War on Terror (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as silk-road)
avg rating 3.86 — 448 ratings — published 2006
The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as silk-road)
avg rating 3.95 — 2,981 ratings — published 2023
River Kings: A New History of the Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as silk-road)
avg rating 4.04 — 4,152 ratings — published 2021
Red Sands: Reportage and Recipes through Central Asia, from Hinterland to Heartland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as silk-road)
avg rating 4.26 — 261 ratings — published
The Travels (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as silk-road)
avg rating 3.57 — 8,270 ratings — published 1298
The New Silk Roads: The Present and Future of the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as silk-road)
avg rating 3.57 — 8,129 ratings — published 2018
We're Riding on a Caravan (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as silk-road)
avg rating 3.84 — 109 ratings — published 2005
Buddhism and Islam on the Silk Road (Encounters with Asia)
by (shelved 2 times as silk-road)
avg rating 4.04 — 52 ratings — published 2010
A Lady Cyclist's Guide to Kashgar (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as silk-road)
avg rating 3.26 — 4,576 ratings — published 2012
Stories From The Silk Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as silk-road)
avg rating 3.98 — 62 ratings — published 1999
The Silk Road: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as silk-road)
avg rating 3.80 — 300 ratings — published 2013
The Silk Road: Art and History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as silk-road)
avg rating 4.32 — 19 ratings — published 2003
On the Noodle Road: From Beijing to Rome, with Love and Pasta (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as silk-road)
avg rating 3.37 — 1,494 ratings — published 2008
The Secret History of the Mongol Queens: How the Daughters of Genghis Khan Rescued His Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as silk-road)
avg rating 3.93 — 4,732 ratings — published 2010
Forbidden Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as silk-road)
avg rating 3.93 — 230 ratings — published 1937
The Prehistory of the Silk Road (Encounters with Asia)
by (shelved 2 times as silk-road)
avg rating 3.56 — 16 ratings — published 2007
Kashgar: Oasis City on China's Old Silk Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as silk-road)
avg rating 4.15 — 13 ratings — published 2008
The Silk Roads: A Brief History with Documents (Bedford Series in History and Culture)
by (shelved 2 times as silk-road)
avg rating 3.88 — 42 ratings — published 2012
“A caravan from China comes;
For miles it sweetens all the air
With fragrant silks and dreaming gums,
Attar and myrrh --
A caravan from China comes.
O merchant, tell me what you bring,
With music sweet of camel bells;
How long have you been travelling
With these sweet smells?
O merchant, tell me what you bring.
A lovely lady is my freight,
A lock escaped of her long hair, --
That is this perfume delicate
That fills the air --
A lovely lady is my freight.
Her face is from another land,
I think she is no mortal maid, --
Her beauty, like some ghostly hand,
Makes me afraid;
Her face is from another land.
The little moon my cargo is,
About her neck the Pleiades
Clasp hands and sing; Hafiz, 't is this
Perfumes the breeze --
The little moon my cargo is.”
―
For miles it sweetens all the air
With fragrant silks and dreaming gums,
Attar and myrrh --
A caravan from China comes.
O merchant, tell me what you bring,
With music sweet of camel bells;
How long have you been travelling
With these sweet smells?
O merchant, tell me what you bring.
A lovely lady is my freight,
A lock escaped of her long hair, --
That is this perfume delicate
That fills the air --
A lovely lady is my freight.
Her face is from another land,
I think she is no mortal maid, --
Her beauty, like some ghostly hand,
Makes me afraid;
Her face is from another land.
The little moon my cargo is,
About her neck the Pleiades
Clasp hands and sing; Hafiz, 't is this
Perfumes the breeze --
The little moon my cargo is.”
―
“To follow the Silk Road is to follow a ghost. It flows through the heart of Asia, but it has officially vanished leaving behind the pattern of its restlessness: counterfeit boarders, unmapped peoples. The road forks and wanders wherever you are. It is not a single way, but many: a web of choices.”
― Shadow of the Silk Road
― Shadow of the Silk Road
