The antique Silk Road that connected the Chinese and Mediterranean Worlds for more than a millennium, facilitating the exchange of both goods and cultures, is widely known and celebrated. Less familiar is its more southerly equivalent, the 'Ancient Tea-Horse Road' that once linked the lush tea gardens of southwest China with the frigid wastelands of Tibet and - beyond - the torrid plains of northern India. The latter is also sometimes called the 'Southern Silk Road', though this is a misnomer, as silk seems never to have played a very important part in the traffic that traveled along it. Follow the jingling mule trains carrying tea across the centuries from China to Tibet. 35 historic images, 10 contemporary images, 1 map
- ISBN10 1300464860
- ISBN13 9781300464860
- Publish Date 1 February 2013
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Lulu.com
- Format eBook
- Language English