The Silk Road

to this day, that famous Silk Road spans a wealth of cultures and lands, striking the massif of the Tibetan Plateau and traversing the mighty Tian Shan mountain range of Central Asia; then on and on acros the steppe to the Caspian Sea, the Caucasus and, finally, the Mediterrancean and its Venetian merchants. The Silk Road captures these vast territories and diverse lands in modern photography, while Frances Wood's informed text unravels something of the route's history to form a key work on this most complex and alluring of trade routes.