SAND-BURIED RUINS OF KHOTAN by M. Aurel Stein ( 9781108069731 )

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SAND-BURIED RUINS OF KHOTAN
PERSONAL NARRATIVE OF A JOURNEY OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL & GEOGRAPHICAL EXPLORATION IN CHINESE TURKESTAN

By:

M. Aurel Stein

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Paperback

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1108069738

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9781108069731

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CAMBRIDGE LIBRARY COLLECTION

Pub. date:

20 September, 2013

Series:

Cambridge Library Collection - Archaeology

Pages:

576

Description:

Illustrated with numerous photographs, this 1903 account of a journey through Chinese Turkestan records significant archaeological discoveries.

Synopsis:

Between 1900 and 1901, the Hungarian-born archaeologist Marc Aurel Stein (1862-1943) made the first of several significant trips through Central Asia. In 1903, he published this account of his journey from Calcutta to London via the deserts of Chinese Turkestan. The text is richly illustrated with photographs of locations on the route followed by Stein's party, as well as of the people they encountered and many of the artefacts they excavated in the vicinity of the ancient oasis town of Khotan. Stein intended his book to be accessible to non-specialists, and his descriptions of the many important archaeological discoveries, such as Sanskrit texts of Buddhist scriptures, are interspersed with compelling human details and anecdotes about traversing the challenging terrain of eastern Central Asia. The work of an indefatigable explorer, this book sheds light on the spread of Graeco-Buddhist culture along the Silk Route.

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135 b/w illus.

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Cambridge University Press

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