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Life along the Silk Road - Second Edition (Paperback, 2nd edition)
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Life along the Silk Road - Second Edition (Paperback, 2nd edition)
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In this long-awaited second edition, Susan Whitfield broadens her
exploration of the Silk Road and expands her rich and varied
portrait of life along the great pre-modern trade routes of
Eurasia. This new edition is comprehensively updated to support
further understanding of themes relevant to global and comparative
history and remains the only history of the Silk Road to
reconstruct the route through the personal experiences of
travelers. In the first 1,000 years after Christ, merchants,
missionaries, monks, mendicants, and military men traveled the vast
network of Central Asian tracks that became known as the Silk Road.
Whitfield recounts the lives of twelve individuals who lived at
different times during this period, including two characters new to
this edition: an African shipmaster and a Persian traveler and
writer during the Arab caliphate. With these additional tales,
Whitfield extends both geographical and chronological scope,
bringing into view the maritime links across the Indian Ocean and
depicting the network of north-south routes from the Baltic to the
Gulf. Throughout the narrative, Whitfield conveys a strong sense of
what life was like for ordinary men and women on the Silk Road, the
individuals usually forgotten to history. A work of great
scholarship, Life along the Silk Road continues to be both
accessible and entertaining.
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