Shadow of the Silk Road
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Tusi, Nasir ad-din
Twelfth Imam/the Mahdi
Uighurs
Ukrainians
Ulug Beg, prince
Unai Enye (goddess)
United Nations (UN)
Assistance Mission, Mazar-e-
Sharif
United States of America
Urumqi
University
Ushmurvan river
Ustkurgan
Uzbekistan
journey in
Uzbeks
Vahid (Iranian emigrant)
Vakhuman, king of Samarkand
Vatican
‘Vegetable Lamb’
Vespasian, emperor
Virgin Mary
Visigoths
Wahabis/Wahabism
Wang, Abbot
Wang Zhonghu
Warner, Langdon
Wei valley
Wei river
West, the
time line
Western Market, Changan
Western music
White Jade river, Khotan
World Trade Center
Wudi, emperor
Xian
Xinjiang
Xuanzang, monk
Xuanzong, emperor
Yacub Beg
Yalda
Yangtze river
Yarkand
Yellow Emperor
grave-mound of
Yellow Hat sect
Yellow River
Yenisei river
Ying (Luo Ying)
Yongchang
Youshashan
Yu (professor)
Yuan dynasty
Zahir Shah, king
Zanjan
Zelim (Zelim Khan) (artist)
Zerafshan river
Zhangye
Zhelaizhai
Zhukov, Marshal
Zoroaster
Zoroastrianism
About the Author
COLIN THUBRON is an acknowledged master of travel writing. His first books were about the Middle East—Damascus, Lebanon and Cyprus. In 1982 he traveled in the Soviet Union, pursued by the KGB. From these early experiences developed his great travel books on the land mass that makes up Russia and Asia: Among the Russians, Behind the Wall, The Lost Heart of Asia, In Siberia and now Shadow of the Silk Road Road.
An award-winning novelist as well as, arguably, the most admired travel writer of our time, Thubron lives in London.
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Credits
Jacket Design by Christine Van Bree
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SHADOW OF THE SILK ROAD. Copyright © 2007 by Colin Thubron. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
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