trade routes

A historical survey of the Spice Route and the Cape of Good Route, used to go around Africa and to reach Asia by sea.

Traces the history of the following trade and travel routes: the Mohawk Trail, the Wilderness Road and other trans-Appalachian routes, the Mississippi Route, and the Santa Fe, Chihuahua, Oregon, and California Trails.

Describes the history of trade routes and commerce in the New World, including the Panama Route, the Inca Royal Road, the California Mission Trail, and the Cape Horn Route.

Explores the travels of early traders and explorers, including the Vikings, Marco Polo and Spanish conquistadors.

Discusses the development of the trade routes known as the Nile Route, Sudan Route, Incense Road, Pilgrimage Road, and Sahara Routes, with an overview of their social and economic history up to the present day.

Following a student who is helping make a documentary film, this engaging title takes readers on a journey of US history from its beginnings to 1620, a period that the three worlds of Europe, North America, and Africa meet.

"The Silk Road is as iconic in world history as the Colossus of Rhodes or the Suez Canal. But what was it, exactly? It conjures up a hazy image of a caravan of camels laden with silk on a dusty desert track, reaching from China to Rome. The reality was different--and far more interesting--as revealed in this new history. In "The Silk Road, " Valerie Hansen describes the remarkable archeological finds that revolutionize our understanding of these trade routes"--Provided by publisher.

Chronicles the author's journey along the ancient Silk Road on a mission to create a road linking China with the province of Xinjiang, and covers his subsequent imprisonment for conducting archaeological investigations during his travels.

Examines the history of the overland trade routes that connected China with Europe that allowed the transmission of cultural and social ideas and beliefs that helped shape civilization and includes sixty-two color photographs, seventeen maps, and museum listings of many Silk Road treasures.