The Silk Road
Taking the Bus to Pakistan
$24.57
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
9 February 2016
Summary
To travel upon the Silk Road is to travel through history. Millennia older than California’s Camino Real, and perhaps even a few years senior to the roads of the Roman Empire, the Silk Road is a network of routes stretching from delta towns of China all the way to the Mediterranean Sea - a cultural highway considered to be essential to the development of some of the world’s oldest civilizations. It was upon this road that that Chinese silk traveled and was exchanged for incense, precious ston…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781619027107 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1619027100 |
| Author: | Bill Porter |
| Publisher: | Counterpoint |
| Imprint: | Counterpoint |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 9 February 2016 |
| Weight: | 408g |
| Dimensions: | 228mm x 152mm |
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Winner of the 2018 Thornton Wilder Prize for Translation
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About The Author
Bill Porter
Bill Porter (aka “Red Pine”) is widely recognized as one of the world’s preeminent translators of Chinese poetry and religious texts; he assumes the pen name “Red Pine” for his translations.Writing as Red Pine, he was the first translator to ever translate the entirety of Han-shan’s oeurve into English, published as The Collected Songs of Cold Mountain. Red Pine was also the first to translate into English the entirely of The Poems of the Masters. He has also translated several of the major Buddhist sutras, including the Heart Sutra, Diamond Sutra, and Platform Sutra.
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