Aurel Stein: Pioneer of the Silk Road
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| Rating | : | 4.81 (761 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0295977302 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 430 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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Aurel Stein: Pioneer of the Silk Road A Customer Aurel Stein was not without his faults. From all indications, he believed in the white man's burden, and probably would have tolerated fascism for its efficiency except for the realization that Hitler's brand of it included anti-Semitism, and Stein was Jewish. Even the subtitle of the book, Pioneer of the Silk Road, is Eurocentric: there were already people living in the areas Stein explored. Memory of lost civilizations Loreto Novelli It is only through the work and people like Aurel Stein that we can retain knowledge of the past which otherwise would be forgotten and lost in the hands of specialized predators and thieves. Well written book.. "Thief" according to A Customer. The man and his "competitors" were not above your common grave diggers. They simply dug and hauled treasures and historic artifacts out of their resting places and rubbed a people and the land of their heritage.Shame on those who consider them true archeologists.
For 30 years, brilliant archaeologist Sir Aurel Stein led the race to uncover a long-lost Buddhist civilization. "A delightful biography (and) an unforgettable picture of this angular, indomitable man, with his faithful dog and his band of servants, tramping Asia from Syria to Xian in search of the secrets of the past".--THE LONDON INDEPENDENT. 29 photos.
For his efforts, the Chinese denounced him as an imperialist villain who had robbed them of their history. From Library Journal In opening decades of this century, Aurel Stein was the outstanding European explorer and archaeologist of the remote deserts of Central Asia. Walker (Kensington and Chelsea: A Social and Architectural History, 1987), a British journalist, has written a comprehensive and sympathetic biography describing Steins single-minded devotion to uncovering the remains of this long-forgotten culture. . Recommended for academic and larger p