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Published by Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2012, 2012
Seller: Steven Wolfe Books, Newton Centre, MA, U.S.A.
near fine dust-jacket, cover price $19.95, fresh attractive copy, small black cloth, appears unused. MORGAN, LLEWELYN. The Buddhas of Bamiyan. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2012, "1st Harvard University Press ed.", vii, 242pp., . Wonders of the world. - "For 1,400 years, two colossal Buddhas overlooked the Bamiyan Valley on the Silk Road in Afghanistan. The Buddhas embodied the intersection of East and West, and their destruction by the Taliban in 2001 provoked international outrage. Morgan excavates the layers of meaning these vanished wonders hold for a fractured Afghanistan." - CONTENTS: Dynamite and celebrity -- Reimagining Bamiyan -- Islam contemplates the Buddhas -- On the trail of Alexander -- Bamiyan, its future and its past. ISBN 9780674057883.