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On Ancient Central Asian Tracks by Aurel Stein is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is On Ancient Central Asian Tracks about?
This book was written at a time when little of nothing was known of Central Asia. Tibet was still a forbidden land and the conditions in other parts so harsh as to discourage all but the hardiest of travellers and explorers. The author Aurel Stein originated in Hungary and completed his studies in Oxford U. from where he took up the post of principal in Lahore's Oriental College. He later joined the Archaeological Survey of India which allowed him to travel distant lands in some of the most obscure and inaccessible parts of North India and beyond.His descriptions of his travels lead us across almost the same terrain as was followed by Marco Polo on his adventures to China and the Great Kublai Khan. This was the ancient Silk Road, which once joined the civilizations of antiquity and was a main artery of commerce for the ancient world. This most revealing book allows us to see through the eyes of the Author the great expanses of dried up prehistoric oceans now converted into deserts which travellers faced on their long journeys across central Asia.
Who reads On Ancient Central Asian Tracks?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Aurel Stein
- Publisher
- Pantheon Books
- Published
- 1933
- Language
- EN
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Asian History, Humanities