Today the world is focusing unprecedented attention on Asia and the Middle East - rediscovering a cultural, political, and geographical landscape that has fascinated and frustrated Westerners since the time of Alexander the Great. Mapping the Silk Road and Beyond traces the history of the European age of exploration and its lasting effects on these regions through an extensive series of beautifully rendered and imaginative maps drawn by explorers, merchants, and colonial administrators of the time. The book focuses on both ...
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Today the world is focusing unprecedented attention on Asia and the Middle East - rediscovering a cultural, political, and geographical landscape that has fascinated and frustrated Westerners since the time of Alexander the Great. Mapping the Silk Road and Beyond traces the history of the European age of exploration and its lasting effects on these regions through an extensive series of beautifully rendered and imaginative maps drawn by explorers, merchants, and colonial administrators of the time. The book focuses on both maritime exploration and overland discovery via the ancient Silk Road: a network of trading posts that encompassed China, Tibet, Pakistan, India, Kurdistan, Iraq, Ethiopia, Eritrea, and dozens of other places known in ancient times by fabled names, including Abyssinia, Malacca, Macassar, Siam, and Cathay. The maps provide detailed visual keys to the fascinating history of Asia and the Middle East: altogether they illuminate a cast of historical figures ranging from great leaders (the Queen of Sheba, Mohammed the prophet, King Charles V) to legendary explorers (Marco Polo, Columbus, Magellan, Sir Francis Drake, Capt. James Cook) and influential cartographers. Mapping the Silk Road and Beyond depicts over eighty maps organized in clear chronology - from Alexander the Great's map of the world, first created in 323 BC and reproduced in a sixteenth-century atlas, to maps from the nineteenth century by French and Dutch explorers that detail the growing interaction between Europeans and Eastern cultures. These maps represent the finest examples in existence in museums, libraries, and archives around the world, chosen because they depict the most important milestones in the mapping of Asia.
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Add this copy of Mapping the Silk Road and Beyond: 2, 000 Years of to cart. $43.10, good condition, Sold by Anybook rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Lincoln, UNITED KINGDOM, published 2004 by Phaidon Press.
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 1350grams, ISBN: 9780714844091.
Add this copy of Mapping the Silk Road and Beyond: 2, 000 Years of to cart. $30.31, good condition, Sold by Baggins Book Bazaar rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Rochester, KENT, UNITED KINGDOM, published 2004 by Phaidon Press Ltd.
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Good in Good jacket. Book. 4to-over 9¾-12" tall. 176pp, landscape publication, b/w and colour illustrated throughout. Colour pictorial d/j with title in dark blue to spine. Some shelfwear, a number of small tears/chips to d/j top edge, plus further small tear to bottom of rear d/j cover.
Add this copy of Mapping the Silk Road and Beyond: 2, 000 Years of to cart. $27.37, good condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Dallas rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Dallas, TX, UNITED STATES, published 2004 by Phaidon Press.
Add this copy of Mapping the Silk Road and Beyond: 2, 000 Years of to cart. $53.98, very good condition, Sold by Vashon Island Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Vashon, WA, UNITED STATES, published 2004 by Phaidon.
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Color and b/w Illustrations. Very Good+ in Very Good+ jacket. 4to-over 9¾"-12" Tall. In color pictorial jacket over blue cloth with gilt titling, 4to, 176pp. Profusely Illustrated.
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Wide small 4to. Blue paper over boards with gilt lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 176pp. Extensive color illustrations. Fine/fine. Lovely and tight first edition of this handsome production. Front flyleaf bears decorative-edged bookplate boldly signed and inscribed in black fineline "Best wishes / Ken Nebenzahl" by the famed Chicago map dealer and scholar (1927-2020).
Add this copy of Mapping the Silk Road and Beyond to cart. $103.38, new condition, Sold by Just one more Chapter, ships from Miramar, FL, UNITED STATES, published 2004 by Phaidon Press.
