Main entry:

Nebenzahl, Kenneth, 1927-2020, author.

Title & Author:

Mapping the Silk Road and beyond : 2,000 years of exploring the East / Kenneth Nebenzahl.

Publication:

London : Phaidon, 2004.

Description:

176 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color) ; 26 x 30 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-172) and index.
Introduction -- Ancient and medieval European concepts of Asia -- Impulse to explore the East -- East Indian empires: Portuguese, Dutch, British, French, Spanish -- Resisting European encroachment: Japan, Korea, China -- North to Cathay and the Pacific -- Glossary -- Chronology -- References -- Select bibliography -- Index.

Summary:

"Today the world is focusing unprecedented attention on Asia and the Middle East -- rediscovering a cultural, political, and geographical landscape that has fascinated and frustrated Westerners since the time of Alexander the Great. Mapping the Silk Road and Beyond traces the history of the European age of exploration and its lasting effects on these regions through an extensive series of beautifully rendered and imaginative maps drawn by explorers, merchants, and colonial administrators of the time. The book focuses on both maritime exploration and overland discovery via the ancient Silk Road: a network of trading posts that encompassed China, Tibet, Pakistan, India, Kurdistan, Iraq, Ethiopia, Eritrea, and dozens of other places known in ancient times by fabled names, including Abyssinia, Malacca, Macassar, Siam, and Cathay. The maps provide detailed visual keys to the fascinating history of Asia and the Middle East: altogether they illuminate a cast of historical figures ranging from great leaders (the Queen of Sheba, Mohammed the prophet, King Charles V) to legendary explorers (Marco Polo, Columbus, Magellan, Sir Francis Drake, Capt. James Cook) and influential cartographers. Mapping the Silk Road and Beyond depicts over eighty maps organized in clear chronology -- from Alexander the Great's map of the world, first created in 323 BC and reproduced in a sixteenth-century atlas, to maps from the nineteenth century by French and Dutch explorers that detail the growing interaction between Europeans and Eastern cultures. These maps represent the finest examples in existence in museums, libraries, and archives around the world, chosen because they depict the most important milestones in the mapping of Asia."--Publisher's description.

ISBN:

0714844098 (cased)
9780714844091 (cased)

Subject:

Silk Road History Maps.
Trade routes Asia History Maps.
Cartography Asia History.
Cartographie Asie Histoire.
Trade routes
Cartography
Historical geography
Zijderoute.
Kaarten (geografie)
Asia Historical geography Maps.
Route de la soie Atlas.
Asie Géographie historique Atlas.
Asia
Asia - Historical geography - Maps
Cartography - Asia - History

Form/genre:

Nonfiction.
Maps.
History
Cartes géographiques.

Holdings:

Location: Library main m 233316
Call No.: GA201 .N4 2004
Status: Available