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English
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"Shadow of the Silk Road records a journey along the greatest land route on earth. Out of the heart of China into the mountains of Central Asia, across northern Afghanistan and the plains of Iran and into Kurdish Turkey, Colin Thubron covers some seven thousand miles in eight months. Making his way by local bus, truck, car, donkey cart and camel, he travels from the tomb of the Yellow Emperor, the mythic progenitor of the Chinese people, to the ancient...
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Series
Publisher
Thameside Press
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 9.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Relates the story of the trade that developed between China and Europe, the sharing of science and inventions between the two areas, and the two great paths, the Silk and Spice Routes, that connected them.
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Series
Silk and Song volume 2
Publisher
Gere Donovan Press
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
In Everything Under the Heavens, 16-year old Johanna fled Cambaluc -- and her murderous stepmother-- joining her uncle's westbound caravan on the Silk Road. With her foster brother Jaufre and a few faithful companions, they made it to the rooftop of the world--Terak Pass-- separating Mongol China from the scattered sheikdoms of the Persian empire. Then, disaster struck.
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Series
Silk and Song volume 3
Publisher
Gere Donovan Press
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
"The Land Beyond is the third and final novel in Dana Stabenow's Silk and Song trilogy. The story began in Everything Under the Heavens, when 16-year old Johanna fled Cambaluc--and her murderous stepmother--joining her uncle's westbound caravan on the Silk Road. Their journey has taken them across an entire continent. And now to the land beyond the sea."--publisher.
Author
Series
Silk and Song volume 1
Publisher
Gere Donovan Press
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
"Raised in a prosperous family of 14th century Chinese merchants, by the age of sixteen Wu Johanna's world reaches from Japan in the east to Tajikistan in the west. It's a world seen from camelback, through tent flaps, and in the cool, shaded caravanserai where travelers and traders gather along the Silk Road. Hers is a world of spice merchants and pearl divers, bandits and troubadours, servants and sheikhs. A world in which trust is more valuable...
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Head of Zeus Ltd
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
In Beijing, 1322 Sixteen-year-old Wu Johanna is the granddaughter of the legendary trader Marco Polo. In the wake of her father's death, Johanna finds that lineage counts for little amid the disintegrating court of the Khan. Johanna's destiny--if she has one--lies with her grandfather, in Venice. So, with a small band of companions, she takes to the road--the Silk Road--that storied collection of routes that link the silks of Cathay, the spices of...
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