The book starts at the end of his first book, The Cowboy and the Eight Immortals, as they plan to leave China via the Silk Road, where the paleontologist plans to dig for bones and ship them back to the United States. They plan to travel the Silk Road back to the Black Sea and then to England, where Ryans Lady Jane lives. The run into the Second Afghan War at the Khyber Pass and are stopped from completing their first objective. Then they finally see Dr. Watson, and Lady Jane takes Watson back to England, while Ryan goes back to China to save Empress Kin a second time from people seeking her throne.
Going West on the Silk Road
Take an intrepid journey through the history of the Silk Roads with this brilliant reference book.
The Silk Road, which has been understood as a generalized route of trade between the East and the West, is different from European, North African, and Near Eastern trade routes because until recently, it has been understood as solely being ...
One of the trademarks of Colin Thubron's travel writing is the beauty of his prose; another is his gift for talking to people and getting them to talk to him. Shadow of the Silk Road encounters Islamic countries in many forms.
Tearing up the Silk Road is an irreverent travelogue that details a journey along the ancient trade routes from China to Istanbul, through Central Asia, Iran and the Caucasus.
... sacrifice with two dogs, also head-and-hide sacrifices (Anthony and Brown 1991). Bit wear suggested that this ... steppe horse-eaters were quite different from those of Botai in one crucial respect: in the western steppes, horse bones ...
"Originally published in hardcover in Great Britain by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, London, in 2015..."--Title page verso.
In the age of Brexit and Trump, the West is buffeted by the tides of isolationism and fragmentation. Yet to the East, this is a moment of optimism as a new network of relationships takes shape along the ancient trade routes.
The book contains a wealth of original insights into nearly every aspect of the complex history of this region.
When a Chinese monk broke into a hidden cave in 1900, he uncovered one of the world’s great literary secrets: a time capsule from the ancient Silk Road.