The Golden Road to Samarkand
by Blunt, Wilfrid
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0670344389
- ISBN 13
- 9780670344383
- Seller
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About This Item
New York: Viking Press; A Studio Book, 1973. Cloth, 280 pages, illustrations (some colour); 26 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Expected browning. Dust jacket, with toned flaps, protected in a mylar cover. CONTENTS: Prologue: Samarkand; 1. Alexander the Great: an invader from the West; 2. Hsuan-tsang: a pilgrim from the East; 3. Mahomet and Kutayba, the Sword of Islam; 4. Jenghiz Khan: the Mongols in Central Asia; 5. The princes of Christendom: panic in the West; 6. William of Rubruck: a friar from the West; 7. The Polos and Ibn Battuta: four intrepid travellers; 8. Tamerlane: his triumph and death; 9. Timurid princes and the fifteenth-century Renaissance; 10. Babur: a soldier of sensibility; 11. Anthony Jenkinson: an Englishman reaches Central Asia; 12. Dr. Joseph Wolff, the 'Grand Derveesh of Englistaun'; 13. Aurel Stein and the Caves of the Thousand Buddhas; Epilogue: Samarkand Today; General Maps; Bibliography; Notes on Illustrations; Index.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 122009
- Title
- The Golden Road to Samarkand
- Author
- Blunt, Wilfrid
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0670344389
- ISBN 13
- 9780670344383
- Publisher
- Viking Press; A Studio Book
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1973
- Size
- 4to
- Bookseller catalogs
- Genre & Subject / Religious / Buddhist; Asian / Central Asian; Genre & Subject / Religious / Islamic;
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