Mapping the Silk Road and Beyond

Author - Kenneth Nebenzahl ... [Goo?] [Posters]

This Hardcover Book item from Phaidon Press was reviewed on 6-Nov-2008.

Search ISBN:0714844098 offer from Abebooks or used books from Alibris. Mapping the Silk Road and Beyond Reference Book. Classifications : Middle Eastern Regional History & Criticism Arts & Photography Subjects Books General History & Criticism Arts & Photography Subjects Books General AAS History & Criticism Arts & Photography Subjects . Click the following link to view the cover of Mapping the Silk Road and Beyond.

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1) Hardcover Book Mapping the Silk Road and Beyond by Phaidon Press. A most detailed and wonderful book of early maps of the Silk Road. It is one for the travel eccentric really. I love just slowly leafing through and enjoying each print. Great to get such a book from Amazon as we don´t have such specialist items in Australia.¤

2) Hardcover Book Mapping the Silk Road and Beyond by Phaidon Press. Mapping Asia presents an authoritative selection of the most important antique maps of Asia and the Middle East produced from the time of Alexander the Great to the early nineteenth century, by cartographers from England, France, Portugal, Holland, Turkey, Italy, and China. A fascinating visual chronicle of the maps and their makers, this book explores the history of Europe´s discovery of lands to the east, from Constantinople to present-day Alaska. It tells the stories of the thriving trade that linked east and west beginning with the ancient Silk Road, the explorers - such as Magellan and Sir Francis Drake - who continually searched for new lands and routes to reach the east beginning in the fifteenth century, and the indigenous peoples who struggled to retain their autonomy in the face of European missionary activity and influence. Mapping Asia reproduces in full color 80 beautifully rendered and rare maps, more than 40 of which have never been published for the general public. Each map is accompanied by an accessible essay that provides extensive background on the mapmaker and how the map was originally produced, and describes the geography, sites, and details on the map. Most¤

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