Артикул:
Rdb113336
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Автор
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Thubron Colin
Год выпуска
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2006
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Отличная: новая книга. Хорошая: незначительные внешние недостатки. Много читали: заметные потёртости, пометки.
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Отличная
ISBN
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9780701173630
Количество страниц
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363
Производитель
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Chatto & Windus
Тип обложки
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Твердый переплет, суперобложка
200 ₽
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Аннотация
There was never one Silk Road - but several. The route chosen by Colin Thubron passes through China, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan, Iran and Turkey, taking in the most sterile desert on earth (the Taklamakan) and the strife-torn mountain valleys of today's conflicts, as he travels from the tomb of the Yellow Emperor (the mythic progenitor of the Chinese people) to the ancient port of Antioch, by local bus, truck, car - occasionally Landrover, horse or camel. He covers 7,000 miles in 8 months, and confesses that it is the most difficult, complex and ambitious journey he has undertaken in 40 years of travel. The Silk Road is a huge network of arteries and veins, splitting and converging across the breadth of Asia. Chinese silk has turned up in the hair of a 10th-century-BC Egyptian mummy; equally, the tartan plaids of 3000-year-old mummies in the Chinese desert echo those of early Celts. To be travelling the Silk Road, writes Colin Thubron, is to be travelling the history of the world: tracing the passage
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