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1jordantaylor
Happy New Year!
In a few months, I will be setting out on a journey across China and a few other neighboring countries. Many of the locations that I visit will be along the Silk Road, so I want to read as much about it as I can.
What Silk Road books do you recommend?
In a few months, I will be setting out on a journey across China and a few other neighboring countries. Many of the locations that I visit will be along the Silk Road, so I want to read as much about it as I can.
What Silk Road books do you recommend?
2DinadansFriend
"Lost Enlightenment" by S. Frederick Starr, "The Empire of the Steppes" by Rene Grousset, "The Travels" by Marco Polo, "The Mongol Empire" by Peter Brent, and "The Travels of Ibn Battuta" by Ross E. Dun. But I'm more of a Medievalist than a Sinologist. Peter Hopkirk has several books on interior Asia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.
