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Ruins of Desert Cathay - Personal Narrative of Explorations in Central Asia and Westernmost China (Paperback)
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Ruins of Desert Cathay - Personal Narrative of Explorations in Central Asia and Westernmost China (Paperback)
Series: Ruins of Desert Cathay 2 Volume Set, Volume 1
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In this two-volume work, published in 1912, the Hungarian-born
archaeologist Marc Aurel Stein (1862-1943) describes his second
expedition to the deserts of Chinese Turkestan in 1906-8. (His
account of his first expedition, Sand-Buried Ruins of Khotan
(1903), is also reissued in this series.) Stein intended this
account to be read by non-specialists, and, like his previous book,
it is highly illustrated and full of interesting details about his
journey and the people he met en route, as well as of the important
archaeological discoveries which still link his name with the
civilisation of this remote and dangerous area. In Volume 1, Stein
describes the problems of setting up the expedition and the
excitement and perils of the route, which took him through the
tribal areas of the North-West Frontier and the kingdom of
Afghanistan, ending with his arrival at the western extremity of
the Great Wall of China.
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