Aslan, Chris - Unravelling the Silk Road | Book
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Three textile roads tangle their way through Central Asia. The famous Silk Road united east and west through trade. Older still was the Wool Road, of critical importance when houses made from wool enabled nomads to traverse the inhospitable winter steppes. Then there was the Cotton Road, marked by greed, colonialism and environmental disaster.
At this intersection of human history, fortunes were made and lost through shimmering silks, life-giving felts and gossamer cottons. Chris Aslan, who has spent fifteen years living and working in the region, expertly unravels the strands of this tangled history and embroiders them with his own experiences of life in the heart of Asia.
Deeply researched and passionately told, Aslan's new book deftly weaves the complex strands of Central Asia's history, people and textiles. From the dusty alleys of Khiva's Old City to the high-altitude plateau's of Tajikistan's High Pamirs, Aslan makes a warm and curious guide. I couldn't put it down. Antonia Bolingbroke-Kent, author of A Short Ride in the Jungle and Land of the Dawn-lit Mountains
At this intersection of human history, fortunes were made and lost through shimmering silks, life-giving felts and gossamer cottons. Chris Aslan, who has spent fifteen years living and working in the region, expertly unravels the strands of this tangled history and embroiders them with his own experiences of life in the heart of Asia.
Deeply researched and passionately told, Aslan's new book deftly weaves the complex strands of Central Asia's history, people and textiles. From the dusty alleys of Khiva's Old City to the high-altitude plateau's of Tajikistan's High Pamirs, Aslan makes a warm and curious guide. I couldn't put it down. Antonia Bolingbroke-Kent, author of A Short Ride in the Jungle and Land of the Dawn-lit Mountains