Unravelling the Silk Road

Unravelling the Silk Road
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Publisher : Icon Books
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ISBN-10 : 1785789864
ISBN-13 : 9781785789861
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Book Synopsis Unravelling the Silk Road by : Chris Aslan

Download or read book Unravelling the Silk Road written by Chris Aslan and published by Icon Books. This book was released on 2023-06-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Veteran traveler and textile expert Chris Aslan explores the Silk, Wool and Cotton Roads of Central Asia Three textile roads tangle their way through Central Asia. The famous Silk Road united east and west through trade. Older still was the Wool Road, of critical importance when houses made from wool enabled nomads to traverse the inhospitable winter steppes. Then there was the Cotton Road, marked by greed, colonialism and environmental disaster. At this intersection of human history, fortunes were made and lost through shimmering silks, life-giving felts and gossamer cottons. Chris Aslan, who has spent fifteen years living and working in the region, expertly unravels the strands of this tangled history and embroiders them with his own experiences of life in the heart of Asia.


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