The Ruins of Desert Cathay de M. Aurel Stein

The Ruins of Desert Cathay: Personal Narrative of Explorations in Central Asia and Western Most China: Kegan Paul Library of Central Asia

M. Aurel Stein

Documents the adventures of the author, a Hungarian archaeologist who spent most of his life in the service of the British Empire in India and travelled through central Asia and western China. This book is his personal record of the archaeological and geographical explorations during the years 1906 - 1908 under commission by the Indian Government.

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50. Ruins en route to Tun-huang; 51. First halt at Tun-huang; 52. To the 'Caves of the Thousand Buddhas'; 53. A difficult start from Tun-huang; 54. By the ancient wall north of Tun-huang; 55. Discovery of Han records; 56. To the Nan-hu oasis; 57. Ancient remains for the future; 58. First excavations along the western limes; 59. Reconnaissances along the ancient wall; 60. Discoveries by the 'Jade Gate'; 61. The great magazine of the limes; 62. On the western flank of the limes; 63. Records from an ancient watch-station; 64. Return to the 'Thousand Buddhas'; 65. First opening of the hidden chapel; 66. A walled-up library and its treasures; 67. Buddhist pictures from the hidden chapel; 68. large paintings and other art relics; 69. A polyglot temple library; 70. Decorative art at the 'Thousand Buddhas'; 71. At An-hsi, the 'West Protecting'; 72. The ruins of Ch'iap-tzu; 73. The 'Valley of the Myriad Buddhas'; 74. In the mountains of the westernmost Nan-shan; 75. By the gate of the 'Great Wall'; 76. At Su-chou and its 'spring of wine'; 77. Through the Richthofen range of the Nan-shan; 78. Across the To-lai-shan range; 79. From the Su-lo Ho sources to Kan-chou; 80. From Kan-chou to the T'ien-shan; 81. At the Hami oasis; 82. Glimpses of Turfan ruins; 83. Kara-shahr and its old sites; 84. From Khora to Kuchar; 85. In the 'sea of sand'; 86. In a dead delta; 87. Salt marsh or ice?; 88. By the new Keriya river-bed; 89. More Taklamakan ruins; 90. From Ak-su to Yarkand; 91. Preparations at Khotan; 92. In the gorges of Polur and Zailik; 93. To the Yurung-kash glaciers-sources; 94. Across Tibetan plateaus; 95. On an old mountain track; 96. The search for the Yangi Dawan; 97. From the Kun-lun to London; Index.