Foreign Devils on the Silk Road: The Search for the Lost Treasures of Central Asia [Audiobook] download free by Peter Hopkirk
- Listen audiobook: Foreign Devils on the Silk Road: The Search for the Lost Treasures of Central Asia
- Author: Peter Hopkirk
- Release date: 2006/10/17
- Publisher: HODDER & STOUGHTON GENERAL DIVISION
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Travel and Holiday Guides
- ISBN: 9780719564482
- Rating: 9.42 of 10
- Votes: 650
- Review by: Dinorah Mcmanus
- Review rating: 7.82 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/10/20
- Duration: 3H34M18S in 256 kbps (57.6 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-07-16
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: MPC, AAC, WAV, MPEG4, MPEG-4 ALS, WMA, FLAC, MP3 (compression RAR, AZW, 7Z, ZIP)
- Total pages original book: 288
- Includes a PDF summary of 25 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 19M36S (5 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: The Silk Road, which linked imperial Rome and distant China, was once the greatest thoroughfare on earth. Along it travelled precious cargoes of silk, gold and ivory, as well as revolutionary new ideas. Its oasis towns blossomed into thriving centres of Buddhist art and learning. In time it began to decline. The traffic slowed, the merchants left and finally its towns vanished beneath the desert sands to be forgotten for a thousand years. But legends grew up of lost cities filled with treasures and guarded by demons. In the early years of the last century foreign explorers began to investigate these legends, and very soon an international race began for the art treasures of the Silk Road. Huge wall paintings, sculptures and priceless manuscripts were carried away, literally by the ton, and are today scattered through the museums of a dozen countries. Peter Hopkirk tells the story of the intrepid men who, at great personal risk, led these long-range archaeological raids, incurring the undying wrath of the Chinese.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Asian History, Classical History / Classical Civilisation, Travel Writing, 20th Century History: C 1900 To C 2000
- Download servers: 4Shared, Mediafire, BitShare, Torrent, Librevault, Google Drive, DivShare. Compressed in RAR, AZW, 7Z, ZIP
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 10.56 USD
- Dimensions: 130x198x19mm
- Weight: 206g
- Printed by: John Murray Publishers Ltd
- Published in: London, United Kingdom
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