To the modern reader, the Silk Road conjures up images of fabled cities & exotic lands, of long-gone empires & great conquerors. Place names such as Samark&, Bukhara, Khotan or Chang`an continue to fascinate with the richness of their past. In this authoritative book, Luce Boulnois explores the encounter between East & West across the vast continental expanse that separates the Mediterranean world from the Chinese one. She unravels in a clear & compelling way the complex threads that make up the history of these great overland trade routes, which allowed the transmission across the world of ideas & beliefs, techniques & works of art, helping to shape the civilizations that flourished along the way. How did the Romans, following in the footsteps of the Greeks, discover these far-flung regions? What did the Chinese know of the European world? How did they manage to keep the secret of silk manufacture safe for centuries? Did Marco Polo really go to China, or was he just a clever impostor? In navigating through these questions, Luce Boulnois enlightens us about the relationship between the East & the West & their influence on each other in the light of the latest archeological discoveries, while also taking into account the recent geopolitical upheavals that have swept through these regions. This book meets academic requirements while remaining as readable as a novel. This 2012 edition has been revised by Bradley Mayhew. ...

Andre & Clara Malraux had the world at their feet. Wealthy & carefree, their life was a bohemian idyll, spent frequenting the hottest clubs & restaurants, travelling & mingling with the Paris literary set. But all this changed when the stock market crashed & their fortune disappeared overnight. Penniless but still craving adventure, Andre dreamt up a plan to travel to French Indochina where they would collect temple treasures & sell them for a huge profit in America. Against all the odds
- jungle fevers, inexperience & uncooperative locals
- they succeeded. But their treasure hunt turned into a dangerous crusade when Clara & Andre set up an anti-government newspaper in Saigon, defiantly exposing colonial injustices, corruption & the government`s stifling of Asian culture. ” Silk Roads” is a story of romance & adventure, crime & political awakenings, but it also paints a picture of the volatile relationship between two extraordinary people: Andre
- gifted, intense, who would later become one of France`s most celebrated literary figures, & Clara
- vivacious, independent, but forced to live in her husband`s long shadow.



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London Silk Scarf by Helen Chatterton. An unsurpassed combination of sartorial elegance & historical interest
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London Silk Scarf by Helen Chatterton. An unsurpassed combination of sartorial elegance & historical interest
- take your scarf
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London Silk Scarf by Helen Chatterton. An unsurpassed combination of sartorial elegance & historical interest
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Topographic survey of France at 1:25, 000 in IGN`s excellent TOP25 / Série Bleue series. All the maps are GPS compatible, with a 1km UTM grid plus latitude & longitude lines at 5’ intervals. Contours are at 5m intervals except for mountainous areas where the maps have contours at 10m intervals, vividly enhanced by hill shading & graphics for rocky terrain. Colouring with graphics indicates different types of vegetation or land use (deciduous or coniferous forests, moors, orchards, vineyards, etc). PLEASE NOTE: coverage of France at this scale is currently being revised – the format & the presentation of each title are indicated by the letters at the end of its Sheet Reference number (e.g. 0416ET, 3531ETR, 1923SB, etc.)MAPS WITH FULL TOURIST OVERPRINT & AN ENGLISH MAP LEGEND: all TOP25 maps & the SB editions of Série Bleue have an overprint highlighting waymarked walking trails including long-distance GR routes &, where appropriate, ski routes. Symbols indicate campsites, gîtes d’etape, refuges, equestrian centres & other recreational facilities or sites, tourist information centres, cultural heritage, etc. Towns & locations of particular interest are highlighted.- ET or OT = single-sided TOP25 map covering approx. 29x 21 km / 18x 13 miles.- ETR or OTR = waterproof & tear resistant TOP25 map covering the same area as the corresponding ET or OT number, but double-sided, printed on a smaller size sheet with a good overlap between the sides.- SB = Série Bleue map with full tourist overprint; these maps, first introduced in summer 2014, each cover approx. 29x 24km / 18x 15 miles.SÉRIE BLEUE maps with numbers ending in E (Est) or O (Ouest): most editions now indicate the GR routes, but do not show any other tourist information. Map legend is in French only. Each map covers approx. 14x 20km / 9x 12 miles. ...

Silloth & Port Carlisle in 1923 in a fascinating series of reproductions of old Ordnance Survey plans in the Alan Godfrey Editions, ideal for anyone interested in the history of their neighbourhood or family. Selected towns in Great Britain & Ireland are covered by maps showing the extent of urban development in the last decades of the 19th & early 20th century. In this title: this detailed map covers the port & resort of Silloth, created in the mid- 19th century. The railway opened in 1856 to serve a new Cumbrian port, with a steam packet to Liverpool, & a resort quickly followed. A new dock was built in 1885, after the first one had suddenly collapsed. The map covers the town & dock, including the Marshall Dock, New Dock, railway station & sidings (with track layout), Convalescent Institution, pier, Christ Church, Criffel Street & handful of streets leading off it, The Green, West Silloth. On the reverse is a large section of sheet 15.05 covering the earlier port town of Port Carlisle, where a seagoing canal was opened in the 1820s. This was later replaced by a railway, with an initial steam train service which became horse drawn until the 20th century. The map shows most of this tiny village (it never progressed into a town), including the station. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25 ...

Silloth & Port Carlisle in 1923 in a fascinating series of reproductions of old Ordnance Survey plans in the Alan Godfrey Editions, ideal for anyone interested in the history of their neighbourhood or family. The map covers the port & resort of Silloth, created in the mid-19th century. The railway opened in 1856 to serve a new Cumbrian port, with a steam packet to Liverpool, & a resort quickly followed. A new dock was built in 1885, after the first one had suddenly collapsed. The map covers the town & dock, including the Marshall Dock, New Dock, railway station & sidings, Convalescent Institution, pier, Christ Church, Criffel Street & handful of streets leading off it, The Green, West Silloth, etc. On the reverse is a large section of sheet 15.05 covering the earlier port town of Port Carlisle, where a seagoing canal was opened in the 1820s. This was later replaced by a railway, with an initial steam train service which became horse drawn until the 20th century. The map shows most of this tiny village including its station. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25” OS Series: Selected towns in Great Britain & Ireland are covered by maps showing the extent of urban development in the last decades of the 19th & early 20th century. The plans have been taken from the Ordnance Survey mapping & reprinted at about 15 inches to one mile (1:4, 340). On the reverse most maps have historical notes & many also include extracts from contemporary directories. Most maps cover about one mile (1.6kms) north/south, one & a half miles (2.4kms) across; adjoining sheets can be combined to provide wider coverage.FOR MORE INFORMATION & A COMPLETE LIST OF ALL AVAILABLE TITLES PLEASE CLICK ON THE SERIES LINK. ...

Charming, funny, beautifully illustrated this is an hilarious picture book that will resonate with dog lovers, both adults & children, as they read it together. It is full of visual jokes & it comes complete with a fold-out poster When Lily looks out of her bedroom window, she gets the best surprise ever
- a doggy! But this is no normal doggy, this is actually an escaped bear. Lily`s adventure with doggy is told through a poster Lily has made, advertising that she`s found a lost dog. Sadly a zookeeper comes to collect Doggy. But the next day, Lily has another fantastic surprise & Lily`s sadness turns to joy as she sees`kitty` an escaped tiger in her garden.
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Designed to take fans of The Hobbit & The Lord of the Rings deeper into the myths & legends of Middle-earth The Silmarillion is an account of the Elder Days, of the First Age of Tolkien`s world. It is the ancient drama to which the characters in The Lord of the Rings look back, & in whose events some of them such as Elrond & Galadriel took part. The tales of The Silmarillion are set in an age when Morgoth, the first Dark Lord, dwelt in Middle-Earth, & the High Elves made war upon him for the recovery of the Silmarils, the jewels containing the pure light of Valinor. Included in the book are several shorter works. The Ainulindale is a myth of the Creation & in the Valaquenta the nature & powers of each of the gods is described. The Akallabeth recounts the downfall of the great island kingdom of Numenor at the end of the Second Age & Of the Rings of Power tells of the great events at the end of the Third Age, as narrated in The Lord of the Rings. ...