Download or read book Shadow of the Silk Road written by Colin Thubron and published by Random House. This book was released on 2007 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Silk Road is a huge network of arteries and veins, splitting and converging across the breadth of Asia, passing through China, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan, Iran and Turkey, and the most sterile desert on earth: the Taklamakan. This book traces the passage not just of trade and armies, but of ideas, religions and inventions.