Blue gold of Samarkand
Author | : Frédérique Beaupertuis-Bressand |
Publisher | : Art international publishers |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Frédérique Beaupertuis-Bressand |
Publisher | : Art international publishers |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Architecture |
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Author | : Susan Sinclair |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 1508 |
Release | : 2012-04-03 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9047412079 |
Following the tradition and style of the acclaimed Index Islamicus, the editors have created this new Bibliography of Art and Architecture in the Islamic World. The editors have surveyed and annotated a wide range of books and articles from collected volumes and journals published in all European languages (except Turkish) between 1906 and 2011. This comprehensive bibliography is an indispensable tool for everyone involved in the study of material culture in Muslim societies.
Author | : Asimov, Muhammad Seyfeydinovich |
Publisher | : UNESCO Publishing |
Total Pages | : 685 |
Release | : 2000-12-31 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9231036548 |
This second part of volume IV deals with the cultural achievements of the various peoples of this immense region: arts and crafts, literature, architecture, music, science, medicine and technology.
Author | : M.S.Asimov |
Publisher | : Motilal Banarsidass Publ. |
Total Pages | : 714 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Asia, Central |
ISBN | : 9788120815964 |
Author | : Edward H. Schafer |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 434 |
Release | : 2023-09-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0520341147 |
In the seventh century the kingdom of Samarkand sent formal gifts of fancy yellow peaches, large as goose eggs and with a color like gold, to the Chinese court at Ch'ang-an. What kind of fruit these golden peaches really were cannot now be guessed, but they have the glamour of mystery, and they symbolize all the exotic things longed for, and unknown things hoped for, by the people of the T'ang empire. This book examines the exotics imported into China during the T'ang Dynasty (A.D. 618-907), and depicts their influence on Chinese life. Into the land during the three centuries of T'ang came the natives of almost every nation of Asia, all bringing exotic wares either as gifts or as goods to be sold. Ivory, rare woods, drugs, diamonds, magicians, dancing girls—the author covers all classes of unusual imports, their places of origin, their lore, their effort on costume, dwellings, diet, and on painting, sculpture, music, and poetry. This book is not a statistical record of commercial imports and medieval trade, but rather a "humanistic essay, however material its subject matter."
Author | : Kemal Kantarci |
Publisher | : CRC Press |
Total Pages | : 398 |
Release | : 2014-09-05 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1771880554 |
This book will be a major resource for all academic researchers and practitioners interested in issues dealing with the development of tourism, its potential and challenges, and policy and regulatory issues in the Central Asian countries of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan. These countries are gaining more attention as emerging destinations. There is limited research that focuses on these countries with respect to their potential and characteristics as tourism destinations. This book aims to be an invaluable source for both practitioners and academicians who are in international marketing and tourism. The central Asia region (also termed the Silk Road region) as an emerging destination is ripe for future tourism development. The region is rich with historical, cultural, and natural beauty that could provide significant utility to many potential visitors. This book brings together key writings on this topic in a single resource.
Author | : Martha Grimes |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 2003-09-02 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780451411013 |
"Chew on this," says Melrose Plant to Richard Jury, who's in the hospital being driven crazy by Hannibal, a nurse who likes to speculate on his chances for survival. Jury could use a good story, preferably one not ending with his own demise. Plant tells Jury of something he overheard in The Grave Maurice, a pub near the hospital. A woman told an intriguing story about a girl named Nell Ryder, granddaughter to the owner of the Ryder Stud Farm in Cambridgeshire, who went missing more than a year before and has never been found. What is especially interesting to Plant is that Nell is also the daughter of Jury's surgeon. But Nell's disappearance isn't the only mystery at the Ryder farm. A woman has been found dead on the track-a woman who was a stranger even to the Ryders. But not to Plant. She's the woman he saw in The Grave Maurice. Together with Jury, Nell's family, and the Cambridgeshire police, Plant embarks on a search to find Nell and bring her home. But is there more to their mission than just restoring a fifteen-year-old girl to her family? The Grave Maurice is the eighteenth entry in the Richard Jury series and, from its pastoral opening to its calamitous end, is full of the same suspense and humor that devoted readers expect from Martha Grimes.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 544 |
Release | : 1957 |
Genre | : Soviet Union |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Ian Rogers |
Publisher | : Troubador Publishing Ltd |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2018-12-11 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 1789015669 |
An epic motorbike ride from the UK through Europe, Asia and Mongolia to the outer reaches of Siberia. A book about the healing power of travel and motorcycling through an unknown landscape. Fully illustrated with the photographs the author took while on the journey. When his wife died tragically, Ian Rogers decided that to ride from London to Magadan, in Russia, would be his road to healing and recovery. Completing the Road of Bones on a motorcycle would be an escape route from the helplessness he had felt as he had nursed his wife through the cancer that he would in the end lose her to. It took him away from his work, his family, his normal life and gave him the time to grieve and put his world in perspective. No windows, no automatic transmission, no metal box protection and absolutely no safety belt, motorcycling fills your senses. Wind, rain, sunshine, smells and with your eyes always on the prize be it the idiot road users in built up areas or mile upon mile of breath-taking Monglian wilderness. Join the author for a journey of discovery through 15 countries, 11 time zones and 30,000 kilometres of Europe, Central Asia and the Far East. An adventure story as well as a homage to the author’s wife, this is diary of a journey to places people do not normally think of visiting, or know anything about. ‘It’s good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters in the end.’ Ursula Le Guin, author.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Asia, Central |
ISBN | : |