Journeys on the Silk Road (43 page)

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The Long Old Road in China,
Arrowsmith, London, 1927.

Waxman, Sharon,
Loot: The Battle over the Stolen Treasures of the Ancient World,
Times Books, New York, 2008.

Wenbin, Zhang (chief ed.),
Dunhuang: A Centennial Commemoration of the Discovery of the Cave Library,
Morning Glory Publishers, Beijing, 2002.

Whitfield, Roderick,
Dunhuang: Caves of the Singing Sands,
Textile & Art Publications, London, 1995.

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The Art of Central Asia,
Kodansha International in co-operation with the British Museum, London, 1982.

Whitfield, Roderick, and Farrer, Anne,
Caves of the Thousand Buddhas,
British Museum Publications, London, 1990.

Whitfield, Roderick, Whitfield, Susan and Agnew, Neville,
Cave Temples of Mogao,
Getty Conservation Institute and the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 2000.

Whitfield, Susan,
Aurel Stein on the Silk Road,
The British Museum, London, 2004.

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Life along the Silk Road,
John Murray, London, 2000.

Whitfield, Susan, and Sims-Williams, Ursula,
The Silk Road: Travel, Trade, War and Faith,
The British Library, London, 2004.

Whitfield, Susan, and Wood, Frances (eds),
Dunhuang and Turfan: Contents and Conservation of Ancient Documents from Central Asia,
The British Library, London, 1996.

Winchester, Simon,
Bomb, Book and Compass: Joseph Needham and the Great Secrets of China,
Penguin, London, 2009.

Wood, Frances,
The Silk Road: TwoThousand Years in the Heart of Asia,
University of California Press, Berkeley, 2002.

Wood, Frances, and Barnard, Mark,
The Diamond Sutra: The Story of the World’s Earliest Dated Printed Book,
The British Library, London, 2010.

Wriggins, Sally Hovey,
The Silk Road Journey with Xuanzang,
Westview Press, Boulder, 2004.

Wu, Ch’eng-en,
Monkey,
translated by Arthur Waley, Penguin, London, 2006 (1941).

Xuanzang, Si-Yu-Ki,
Buddhist Records of the Western World,
translated by Samuel Beal, Routledge, London, 2000 (1884).

Yule, Henry,
Cathay and the Way Thither,
Asian Educational Services, New Delhi, 2005 (1866).

About the Authors

Joyce Morgan
has worked as a journalist for more than three decades in London, Sydney, and Hong Kong. Her writing has appeared in
The Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian, The Guardian,
and
The Bangkok Post.
She has written on arts and culture since 1994. Joyce is a senior arts writer at
The Sydney Morning Herald
and a former arts editor. She has also worked as a producer with ABC Radio. Born in Liverpool, England, she has traveled extensively in Asia, including India, Pakistan, China, Tibet, and Bhutan.

Conrad Walters
has worked in the media for more than thirty years in the US, where he won awards for investigative journalism, and Australia. In 1999, he joined
The Sydney Morning Herald,
where he has worked as a feature writer and book reviewer. He is now an editor on the paper’s iPad edition. Conrad was born in Boston, educated in Europe and the Middle East and has lived in seven countries. He has a master’s degree in Creative Writing from the University of Technology, Sydney.

They live in Sydney with a vial of sand from the Taklamakan Desert on their mantelpiece.

www.journeysonthesilkroad.com

Aurel Stein takes tea in Lahore in the 1890s. There, his eyes were opened to early Buddhist art in the city’s “Wonder House.”
Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Stein’s desk at his summer camp Mohand Marg, in 1905, with Dash the Great, shortly before the explorer left Kashmir for his second Turkestan expedition.
Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

The ever-watchful British consul and family in Chini Bagh’s garden, Kashgar, circa 1913. Catherine Macartney, seated, with children Sylvia and Eric. George Macartney, rear, holds son Robin.
© The British Library Board

Chiang, Stein’s Chinese secretary, translator and friend on his desert travels. Hiring Chiang was one of the wisest decisions Stein made.
© The British Library Board

Stein and his core team in front of a tamarisk cone. From left: Ibrahim Beg, Chiang, Stein with Dash the Great, cook Jasvant Singh, surveyor Lal Singh and handyman Naik Ram Singh.
© The British Library Board

Hassan Akhun, head camel man. His thirst for adventure made up for an explosive temper.
© The British Library Board

Turdi, the
dak
runner, who made a perilous journey into the desert to deliver Stein’s mail.
© The British Library Board