Teaching/Learning Guides
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Travelers on the Silk
Road
The intent of this page will be to provide bibliographic information and
annotation for accounts about travelers on the Silk Road and for at least some
of the most interesting travel accounts and historical records that may be based
on information from travelers. Part of the Silk Road Seattle project is to make
travel accounts available on line (they are linked to "Texts" on our opening
page).
To a considerable degree our refernce material on travelers can be
supplemented and eventually will be superseded by an ongoing Internet-based
guide to Travelers on the Silk Road being compiled by Adela Lee of the
Silkroad Foundation and Daniel C. Waugh of the University of Washington. To date
the project has some 40-50 entries, compiled about a year ago. We hope that work
on this guide will resume in the upcoming months. The section of the guide to
date begins with the Han era and comes down to the seventeenth century. A
separate page for "modern" travelers (i.e., those from the eighteenth century
onwards) will eventually be created. Entries are arranged in chronological order
of the travel. They include a short description of the itinerary, and a link to
a bibliography page for basic primary and secondary source references. Links are
provided to web-based editions of the travel accounts if such exist.
For the famous Swedish explorer of Central Asia in the late nineteenth and
early twentieth century, Sven Hedin, Prof. Waugh has provided a brief
on-line chronology and a lengthy annotated bibliography. Hedin's voluminous writings in their time were
extraordinarily popular, and his material is still mined for its valuable
geographic and cultural information.
This page will be expanded soon. © 2001 Daniel C. Waugh. Last updated
December 23, 2001.
Silk Road Seattle is a project of the Walter
Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities at the University of
Washington.
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