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Authors: Colin Thubron
Red Guards
Revolutionary Guard
Rey
Richthofen, Friedrich von
Romans
Rome
Roxana (wife of Alexander the Great)
Rukn-ad-din
Rushdie, Salman
Ruslan (Kyrgyz)
Russia
Russian Orthodox Church
Samarkand
Russians
Rustam (hero)
Safavid, dynasty
Saladin, sultan
Samarkand
Sanjar, sultan
Sanliurfa
Sarnath
SARS
Sassanian dynasty
Saudi Arabia
Seleucia Pierea
Seleucus I
Seljuks
Seneca
Seres
Serica
Shaanxi museum
Shaanxi province
Shah Rud valley
Shah Rukh
Shah-i-zinda (grave of Qusam ibn Abbas), Samarkand
Shahi
Shahnama
Shalamov, Varlam
Shams Kilaya
Shandong
Shaybanid dynasty
Shebergan
Shen Congwen
Shirin river
Shutur Khan
Siberia
Sichuan
silk
in Buddhism
discovery
dissemination
in Islam
among the Mongols
manufacture
in Persia
qualities
Roman view of origins
secret betrayal
subverting Roman economy
superfine
uses
Silk House constellation
Silk Road
Antioch at western end of
Changan at eastern end of
decline of
humbler traffic
interconnectedness
letters travelling along
lingua franca of
spread of inventions along
spread of musical instruments along
trade along
Sipylus, Mount
Sirnak
Sogdians
Song-kul lake
South China Sea
Soviet Union/USSR
Spain
Sri Lanka
Stalin, Joseph
Stark, Freya
Stein, Aurel
stirrups
Sufis
see also
Mevlevi, Naqshbandi
Sui dynasty
Sultaniya
Sun Yatsen
Sung dynasty
Sunni
Sussmayr massif
Suzhou
Syr Darya (ancient Jaxartes) river
Syria
Syrians
Tabriz
Tahir (BBC worker)
Taizong, emperor
Tajikistan
Tajiks
Takht-i-Pul
Taklamakan desert
Talas
battle of (
AD
751)
Talas river
Talas valley
Taliban
Tamerlane the Great
tomb
Tang dynasty
and Changan
Tangshan
Tanintanin mountains
Tao Te Ching
Taoism
Tarim basin
Tartars
Tash Rabat
Tashkent
Taurus mountains
Tazhong
Tehran
Termez
terracotta army
Tethys Sea
Tian Shan mountains
Tiananmen Square, Beijing
massacre
Tianshui
Living Buddha of
Tibet
Tigris river
Timurids
Titus, emperor
Tocharians
Tochtor (Kyrgyz)
Toktogul lake reservoir
Torugart pass
Turcomans
Turkestan
Turkey
journey in
Turkic peoples
‘Turkish Islamic Republic of East Turkestan’
Turkmen desert
Turkmenistan
Turks
Tus
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
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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N
ON-FICTION
Mirror to Damascus
The Hills of Adonis
Jerusalem
Journey into Cyprus
Among the Russians
Behind the Wall
The Lost Heart of Asia
In Siberia
F
ICTION
The God in the Mountain
Emperor
A Cruel Madness
Falling
Turning Back the Sun
Distance
To the Last City
Jacket Design by Christine Van Bree
Jacket art: One Hundred Flowers, early seventeenth century, painted silk © gift of the C.C. Wang Family Collection, Brooklyn Museum of Art/The Bridgeman Art Library; (child on train) © Guang Niu/Getty Images
SHADOW OF THE SILK ROAD
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