University of California Press has just announced the new
edition of Susan Whitfield's book, which can be ordered at a discount. Here is
the publisher's information. --Dan Waugh
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New from University of California Press
Life Along the Silk Road: Second Edition by Susan
Whitfield
In this long-awaited second edition, Susan Whitfield
broadens her exploration of the Silk Road and expands her rich and varied
portrait of life along the great pre-modern trade routes of Eurasia. This new
edition is comprehensively updated to support further understanding of themes
relevant to global and comparative history and remains the only history of the
Silk Road to reconstruct the route through the personal experiences of
travelers. In the first 1,000 years after Christ, merchants, missionaries,
monks, mendicants, and military men traveled 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 characters new to this edition: 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 both accessible and entertaining.
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