Silk Road Adventures
The original network for globalization. Not one road but a network of roads running east to west that brought merchants, mercenaries, monks , missionaries connecting Europe, India, and Asia. The Silk Road brought together different cultures. The heart of my fascination with Central Asia. The remnants of the great cities are still there. Connections still there to be reconnected. I was lucky enough to travel to some of its sites--Merv, Bukhara, Tashkent and other unnamed ruins. 1. The Silk Road: Two Thousand Years in the Heart of Asia, Francis Wood (2002). History and stories of the Silk Road. Exquisite artwork and pictures and images. Bought new. 2. The Golden Road to Samarkand, Wilfrid Blunt (1973). Blunt tells his story of the Silk Road through Alexander the Great, Ghingis Khan, Marco Polo, Tamerlane and the British explorer Ariel Stein. Rich in photographs. Bought used. A stamp ...