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    Summary of Journeys on the Silk Road From Joyce Morgan & Conrad Walters
    Summary of Journeys on the Silk Road From Joyce Morgan & Conrad Walters
    Summary of Journeys on the Silk Road From Joyce Morgan & Conrad Walters
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    Journeys on the Silk Road
    A Desert Explorer, Buddha’s Secret Library, and the Unearthing of the World’s Oldest Printed Book From Joyce Morgan and Conrad Walters
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    In Journeys on the Silk Road, Joyce Morgan and Conrad Walters use historical records to create an entertaining narrative that brings the past to life. Rather than making a dry history book or a simple account of what happens, the authors color the story with vivid descriptions and minor details that allow readers to gain not just a sense of what happened but how it happened.
    Even as the authors take some creative liberty (adding specific dialogue where it is definitely not possible to have known exactly what was said), they remain as objective as possible and tell a story that conveys the facts as accurately as possible. This objectivity comes through clearly in the portions of the book in which the authors describe alternative perspectives on the historical events which occurred.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSummary Station
    Release dateJun 14, 2017
    ISBN9781370752225
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      Journeys on the Silk Road

      From

      Joyce Morgan & Conrad Walters

      Summary Station

      Copyright © 2017 by Summary Station

      All rights reserved. This book or any portion thereof

      may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever

      without the express written permission of the publisher

      except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.

      Printed in the United States of America

      First Printing, 2017

      Smashwords Edition

      Table of Contents

      Prologue

      Chapter 1

      Chapter 2

      Chapter 3

      Chapter 4

      Chapter 5

      Chapter 6

      Chapter 7

      Chapter 8

      Chapter 9

      Chapter 10

      Chapter 11

      Chapter 12

      Chapter 13

      Chapter 14

      Chapter 15

      Chapter 16

      Chapter 17

      Chapter 18

      Chapter 19

      Analysis

      Thanks for Reading

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      Prologue

      The novel begins with a somewhat colorful and mystical description of the Cave of the Thousand Buddhas (or Mogao Caves) which will later become the major destination for Aurel Stein, a real life explorer and the protagonist of this narrative.

      Readers are then given a brief description of the historical context which works to not only place the events in the right time period and make clear that the story is, above all else, a real historical fact but it makes the time frame clear for Western readers not well versed in the history of the region in which the story takes place.

      Chapter 1

      In the first chapter, readers meet Aurel Stein. He is immediately characterized as a rugged explorer as readers witness him trekking the inhospitable desert of Central Asia. He is described as strong and exceedingly tough despite his short stature.

      At this point in the story, Stein is returning from his first expedition out into the Turkestan desert. He meets George Maccartney, who

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