Return to the Silk Routes: Current Scandinavian Research on Central Asia

by Birgit N . Schlyter (Editor), Mirja Juntunen (Editor)

• New

  Hardcover
  1999

  $179.82

  The twelve papers cover a range of topics, including politics in Afghanistan and former Soviet central Asian republics; archaeological exploration in Xinjiang; a recently-discovered Mongolian manuscript of Chinggis Khan; stories about Tibetan travelers to the other world; and linguistic issues related to Mongolian and its relationship between the Altaic languages.