Foreign Devils on the Silk Road: The Search for the Lost Cities and Treasures of Chinese Central Asia
by:
Peter Hopkirk (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780870232343 (0870232347)
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Edition language: English
It's wonderful. It reads like a novel. But it's the real account of the lives and expeditions of the British, German, French and Russian archaeologists, orientalists that explored the Silk road at the turn of the 1900's. It's fascinating, entertaining, thrilling to read. Hopkirk knows his subjects, ...