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The name of Sir Aurel Stein is linked forever with the Silk Road of Central Asia - one of the great romantic and evocative images of the East. For thirty years, in the face of fierce rivalry, this brilliant archaeologist led the race to uncover a long-lost Buddhist civilization which had lain for a thousand years beneath China's deserts. Today the treasures which he and his competitors - from Germany, France, Japan, Sweden and America - removed from the sand-covered tombs and temples of the ancient Silk Road are scattered among the museums of a dozen countries. In all Stein marched some 25,000 miles across Central Asia, often in appalling conditions, accompanied always by a small fox-terrier. Festooned with international honours, including a British knighthood, the Jewish Hungarian-born orientalist today lies in the lonely Christian cemetery at Kabul, where he died in 1943, aged 80, on the eve of one last great journey into the past.
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In opening decades of this century, Aurel Stein was the outstanding European explorer and archaeologist of the remote deserts of Central Asia. These bordered on India, Kashmir, and China, where medieval Chinese traders followed The Silk Road leading to the Near East and Europe. Stein discovered spectacular remains of a vanished Buddhist civilizationwall paintings, sculptures, manuscripts, and the earliest known printed book. Walker (Kensington and Chelsea: A Social and Architectural History, 1987), a British journalist, has written a comprehensive and sympathetic biography describing Steins single-minded devotion to uncovering the remains of this long-forgotten culture. For his efforts, the Chinese denounced him as an imperialist villain who had robbed them of their history. Recommended for academic and larger public libraries.Harry Frumerman, formerly with Hunter Coll., New York
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'a delightful biography . . . an unforgettable picture of this angular, indomitable man, with his faithful dog and his band of servants, tramping Asia from Syria to Xian in search of the secrets of the past'The Independent
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- PublisherJohn Murray
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0719557690
- ISBN 13 9780719557699
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages416
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