Sand-buried ruins of Khotan. Personal narrative of a journey of archaeological and geographical exploration in Chinese Turkestan … Cheaper edition. With a map from original surveys and numerous illustrations.

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8vo, pp. xl, 503, [1]; with photogravure frontispiece and large coloured folding map, title in red and black, illustrations throughout; some light foxing; very good in original orange pictorial cloth, spine and upper cover lettered in gilt and with vignettes; very slight wear to extremities, small marks to upper cover, spine a little faded; ink inscription to front free endpaper.'Cheaper edition' (published a year after the first) of Stein's account of his first expedition to Central Asia in 1900 1901.'In May 1900 Stein set out on the first of several expeditions to the deserts of Chinese Turkestan which were to make him famous. His curiosity had been stimulated by the explorations of the Swede Sven Hedin and by the arrival in India of manuscripts from the Taklamakan Desert . Stein's great achievement, during this and two subsequent expeditions (1900 01, 1906 8, and 1913 16), was to establish the existence of a hitherto lost civilization along the Silk Route in Chinese central Asia. Despite the fact that better-financed expeditions from Germany and France . worked in the same area, Stein was the first archaeologist to discover evidence of the spread of the Graeco-Buddhist culture of north-west India across Chinese Turkestan and into China itself. Excavating the lost cities of the Silk Road, he found wooden, leather, and paper documents, painted wall panels, sculpture, coins, textiles, and many domestic objects' (ODNB). Stein's discoveries 'caused a sensation among European scholars, and at the 13th International Congress of Orientalists the following year a special resolution was passed congratulating Stein on his achievements' (Howgego S65).Cordier, Sinica 2865; Yakushi S328a. N° de ref. del artículo GM396

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