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title: "The Silk Road: Two Thousand Years in the Heart of Asia"
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# The Silk Road: Two Thousand Years in the Heart of Asia

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Awesome writing
*by A***H on May 22, 2025*

Beautiful work.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Maps get the 5th star; they aren't there.
*by R***L on June 13, 2017*

The Silk Road in western China is the focus, with peripheral coverage to the south and west. And the chronology is only roughly in order. This is not a comprehensive history of the Silk Road(s) (and, yes, the plural is well advised). Very well illustrated and, sadly, poorly served with maps; do writers and their editors think we can imagine the locations and the distances? That failure cost a star.But if you have no interest in the Silk Road, early long distance trade between cultures, the spread of knowledge and superstition, or the history of central Asia, you will still want to read this for the writing. Which is NOT too clever by half, but clever in exactly the proper amount; Wood's subtle elbows to those who are perhaps less than honest or combative may make you re-read a page here and there.Or you might read it because the characters and terrain are so well sculpted by his prose; you walk through now familiar landscape with companions you know and might well dislike.In a footnote late in the book, Wood addresses a subject obvious to a thoughtful reader much earlier; the morality of 'grave-robbing'. I did not note the page, but Wood quotes an English source as asking 'how we would find a Chinese taking early English documents to Peking', which reference, I think inserts the question into the narrative at that point.I thought I knew the answer to that and similar questions, but after reading this well-crafted bit of literature, I'm certain I don't. Well done indeed!

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A Magnificent Panorama
*by C***R on November 12, 2006*

Fraces Wood's SILK ROAD is a highly readable if somewhat compact survey of the Silk Road which manages to encompass history (interesting discussion of Marco Polo among other things), geography, and culture. This is an excellent introduction to an area of the world, Central Asia and the Roof Of The World, which is likely to become increasingly important as well as accessible. I would suggest reading this book before starting to read very much about The Great Game (Peter Hopkirk's Central Asia books, Meyer's TOURNAMENT OF SHADOWS), or indeed about Central Asia in general. Documentation appears excellent as one would expect of a scholar of Wood's background and credentials. The writing style is exemplary; this is am far more readable treatiste on the subject than the English ranslation of Luce Boulnois' SILK ROAD (which seems to have lacked vigourous or at least effective editing.)

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