Sand-buried ruins of Khotan. Personal narrative of a journey of archaeological & geographical exploration in Chinese Turkestan

Stein, M. Aurel

Published by T. Fisher Unwin, London, 1903

About this Item

First edition, 8vo, pp. xliii, [1], 524; folding map printed in color, 135 illustrations from photographs and drawings in the text; original pictorial terracotta cloth, stamped in gilt and black on upper cover and spine; this copy from the British Embassy in Peking (Beijing), with rubberstamps on endpapers and title page (marked withdrawn), and slight evidence of a sticker removal at the base of the spine, but no other external markings; front hinge starting; a good, sound, and clean copy. "Stein was born in Budapest in 1862, and died at Kabul in 1943. This is a general narrative of his first exploration to Central Asia of 1900-1901. Crossing the Karakoram and the Pamirs he entered Chinese Turkestan, and explored archaeologically the sand-buried ruins of Khotan and its neighbourings" (Yakushi ). "Stein's great achievement, during this and two subsequent expeditions . . . was to establish the existence of a hitherto lost civilization along the Silk Route in Chinese central Asia . . . Stein was the first archaeologist to discover evidence of the spread of Graeco-Buddhist culture of north-west India across Chinese Turkestan and into China itself" (ODNB). Yakushi S713.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Sand-buried ruins of Khotan. Personal narrative of a journey of archaeological & geographical exploration in Chinese Turkestan
• Publisher: T. Fisher Unwin, London
• Publication Date: 1903
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Seller catalogs:
  • Asia
  • China
  • Ancient History
  • Exploration