The Last Secrets Of The Silk Road
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The Last Secrets Of The Silk Road by Alexandra Tolstoy
Their route had seen Genghis Khan, Tamerlane, the Great Game. No one else had completed this journey since the Middle Ages - one that took them through Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kirghizstan, the Taklamakan Desert, mountains and wastelands, ending up in the terminus city of Xi'an in China. Alexandra Tolstoy's absorbing book records the extremes of landscape and climate, the people they met, friendships and tensions, camaraderie and adventures.
For centuries the Silk Road across Central Asia was the great trade route between East and WestFour British girls made a unique eight-month, 2000-mile journey by horse and camel along it through some of the least-known regions of the world. This book by one of the riders tells the story of that extraordinary journey. Their route had seen Genghis Khan, Tamerlane, the Great Game. No one else had completed this journey since the Middle Ages - one that took them through Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kirghizstan, the Taklamakan Desert, mountains and wastelands, ending up in the terminus city of Xi'an in China. Alexandra Tolstoy's absorbing book records the extremes of landscape and climate, the people they met, friendships and tensions, camaraderie and adventures.
Alexandra Tolstoy is at present establishing a travel company which will organise riding, trekking and mountaineering tours in Central Asia. The daughter of the historian Nikolai Tolstoy, she is a distant cousin of the famous novelist Count Leo.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781861973931 |
| ISBN 10 | 1861973934 |
| Title | The Last Secrets Of The Silk Road |
| Author | Alexandra Tolstoy |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Profile Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2003-03-27 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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