Foreign Devils on the Silk Road

“This is probably the most fun book. It’s a great read about different late 19th-century explorers from Central Asia who excavated the Silk Road sites that people still travel to today, as well as the documents and artifacts that made their way into European museums and collections. Each chapter is about explorers from a different country. It’s written in a very lively fashion.” Read more...

The best books on The Silk Road

Valerie Hansen, Historian