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" Journeys on the Silk Road : "
Joyce Morgan and Conrad Walters
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BL
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633684
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Morgan, Joyce
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Journeys on the Silk Road : : a desert explorer, Buddha's secret library, and the unearthing of the world's oldest printed book /\ Joyce Morgan and Conrad Walters
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viii, 325 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :: illustrations, map ;; 24 cm
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9780762782970
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: 0762782978
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Originally published: Sydney : Picador, 2011
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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The Great Race -- Signs of wonder -- The listening post -- The moon and the mail -- The Angels' Sanctuary -- City of sands -- Tricks and trust -- Key to the cave -- The hidden gem -- The thieves' road -- Affliction in the orchard -- Frozen -- Yesterday, having drunk too much -- Stormy debut -- Treasure hunters -- Hangman's Hill -- Facets of a jewel -- Shifting sands -- Scroll forward
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The Silk Road once linked China with the Mediterranean. It conveyed merchants, pilgrims and ideas; but its cultures and oases were swallowed by shifting sands. Central to the Silk Road's rediscovery was a man named Aurel Stein, a Hungarian-born scholar and archaeologist employed by the British service. When a Chinese monk broke into a hidden cave in 1900 and uncovered scrolls undisturbed for a thousand years, Stein secured the scrolls, the Diamond Sutra of AD 868. This is the story of the scrolls, and their journey to London
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Trade routes-- China
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East and West
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Buddhist literature-- Influence-- Western civilization
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Buddhism-- Influence-- Western civilization
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Buddhism-- China-- History-- 20th century
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Tripiṭaka., Sūtrapiṭaka., Prajñāpāramitā., Vajracchedikā., Chinese
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Silk Road
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CB251.M6375 2012
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Walters, Conrad
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