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Silk Road: Monks, Warriors & Merchants
$26.95
As an American Classics major, I have a nodding acquaintance with old Europe. Put me in Central Asia and it's time for misery and confusion. Who ARE all these people? They have names that rhyme. And the history is so long. Greece, Rome, maybe seven hundred years apiece, it's over.
Luce Boulnois, in what I suspect is an excellent translation (still has the verbal zing of a French speaker, but none of the awkwardness of a word-by-word transcription), manages to makes this long term overview sympathetic. It's not like being hammered with a string of weird names. She tells relevant episodes among well-defined characters, beginning with the Romans and the Parthians, flashing back to the earlier history of silk cultivation among the early parts of what would become the Empire of China. The reader gains some understanding of the methods and difficulties of raising very fussy, ravenous caterpillars, and the way these methods diffused into the west. I liked the earlier parts with the more colorful characters better, but even I was interested in the collapse of China's leadership and the rise of the west (it's short and pithy).

I would have liked more maps, in the beginning; I greatly enjoyed the color photos, and if I should ever be inclined to travel east, I suspect the list of Silk Road-related museums would be invaluable.

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