There and back :
Gordon, Stewart
There and back : twelve of the great routes of human history by Stewart Gordon. - New Delhi : Oxford University Press, ©2018 - xiv, 265 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Throughout human history, routes concentrated, funnelled, and mixed human experience. On them moved books, scrolls, and art, in addition to armies, ambassadorial entourages, slaves, brides, and pilgrims. The interaction of people on routes generated surprising innovations in ideas, religions, art, technology, and cuisine. Common themes appear repeatedly, such as slavery, piracy, government taxation and control, medicinal plants, military expeditions, the interaction of competing religions, processing of goods along the way, and networks of credit, trust, and information that often spanned continents. 0.
9780199476459
2017354284
Transportation geography
Trade routes
Ocean travel
Travelers
Pilgrims and pilgrimages
Voyages and travels.
Overland Trails
Silk Road
Camino de Santiago de Compostela
900 / GOR-T
There and back : twelve of the great routes of human history by Stewart Gordon. - New Delhi : Oxford University Press, ©2018 - xiv, 265 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Throughout human history, routes concentrated, funnelled, and mixed human experience. On them moved books, scrolls, and art, in addition to armies, ambassadorial entourages, slaves, brides, and pilgrims. The interaction of people on routes generated surprising innovations in ideas, religions, art, technology, and cuisine. Common themes appear repeatedly, such as slavery, piracy, government taxation and control, medicinal plants, military expeditions, the interaction of competing religions, processing of goods along the way, and networks of credit, trust, and information that often spanned continents. 0.
9780199476459
2017354284
Transportation geography
Trade routes
Ocean travel
Travelers
Pilgrims and pilgrimages
Voyages and travels.
Overland Trails
Silk Road
Camino de Santiago de Compostela
900 / GOR-T