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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Whitfield, Susan, 1960- author.     Subjects     Silk Road -- History.     Silk Road -- Biography.     Asia -- History.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Whitfield, Susan, 1960- author.       by title:      Life along the Silk ...         MARC Display

Life along the Silk Road / Susan Whitfield. by Whitfield, Susan, 1960- author. Oakland, California : University of California Press, c2015. Subjects Silk Road -- History.   Silk Road -- Biography.   Asia -- History. ISBN:  9780520280595 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0520280598 (pbk. : alk. paper) Description:  xvi, 288 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 23 cm Edition:  Second edition. Contents:  Prologue: the shipmaster's tale -- The merchant's tale -- The soldier's tale -- The horseman's tale -- The princess's tale -- The courtesan's tale -- The pilgrim's tale -- The writer's tale -- The official's tale -- The nun's tale -- The widow's tale -- The artist's tale. Requests:  0 Summary:  "In this long-awaited second edition, Susan Whitfield expands her trailblazing exploration of the Silk Road and broadens her rich and varied portrait of life along the great premodern trade routes of Eurasia. This new edition is comprehensively updated to support further understanding of themes relevant to global and comparative history. In the first 1,000 years after Christ, merchants, missionaries, monks, mendicants, and military men traveled on the vast network of Central Asian tracks that became known as the Silk Road. Whitfield recounts the lives of twelve individuals who lived at different times during this period, including two new characters: an African shipmaster and a Persian traveler and writer during the Arab caliphate. With these additional tales, Whitfield extends both geographical and chronological scope, bringing into view the maritime links across the Indian Ocean and depicting the network of north-south routes from the Baltic to the Gulf. Throughout the narrative, Whitfield conveys a strong sense of what life was like for ordinary men and women on the Silk Road, the individuals usually forgotten to history. A work of great scholarship, Life along the Silk Road continues to be extremely accessible and entertaining"--Provided by publisher.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii Kai Public Library Adult Nonfiction 950 Wh Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hawaii State Library Language, Literature & History 950 Wh Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hilo Public Library Adult Nonfiction 950 Whitfield Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kaimuki Public Library Adult Nonfiction 950 Wh Checked In Add Copy to MyList Waipahu Public Library Adult Nonfiction 950 Wh Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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