Between 1900 and 1901, the Hungarian-born archaeologist Marc Aurel Stein (1862 1943) made the first of several significant trips through Central Asia. In 1903, he published this account of his journey from Calcutta to London via the deserts of Chinese Turkestan. The text is richly illustrated with photographs of locations on the route followed by Stein's party, as well as of the people they encountered and many of the artefacts they excavated in the vicinity of the ancient oasis town of Khotan. Stein intended his book to be accessible to non-specialists, and his descriptions of the many...

In this two-volume work, published in 1912, the Hungarian-born archaeologist Marc Aurel Stein (1862 1943) describes his second expedition to the deserts of Chinese Turkestan in 1906 8. (His account of his first expedition, Sand-Buried Ruins of Khotan (1903), is also reissued in this series.) Stein intended this account to be read by non-specialists, and, like his previous book, it is highly illustrated and full of interesting details about his journey and the people he met en route, as well as of the important archaeological discoveries which still link his name with the civilisation of this...

In this two-volume work, published in 1912, the Hungarian-born archaeologist Marc Aurel Stein (1862 1943) describes his second expedition to the deserts of Chinese Turkestan in 1906 8. (His account of his first expedition, Sand-Buried Ruins of Khotan (1903), is also reissued in this series.) Stein intended this account to be read by non-specialists, and, like his previous book, it is highly illustrated and full of interesting details about his journey and the people he met en route, as well as of the important archaeological discoveries which still link his name with the civilisation of this...