On Ancient Central-Asian Tracks: Brief Narrative of Three Expeditions in Innermost Asia and North-Western China. By Sir Aurel Stein. Pp. xxiv + 342 + 102 plates. (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd ...

It was a general name for the ancient strategic transportation channel which started from China and passed through Central Asia, West Asia, Africa and Europe. In the 19th century, when the name of ...