From the time of the ancient Greeks onwards the West's relationship with Asia consisted for the most part of outrageous tales of strange beasts and monsters, of silk and spices shipped over vast distances and an uneasy sense of unknowable empires fantastically far away. By the twentieth century much of Asia might have come under Western rule after centuries of warfare, but its ...(展开全部)

From the time of the ancient Greeks onwards the West's relationship with Asia consisted for the most part of outrageous tales of strange beasts and monsters, of silk and spices shipped over vast distances and an uneasy sense of unknowable empires fantastically far away. By the twentieth century much of Asia might have come under Western rule after centuries of warfare, but its ...(展开全部)

This volume contains essays on the samples of twenty-six of the languages of Inner Eurasia. The samples were originally collected by Nicolaas Witsen (1641-1717) and published by him in 1705. For thirty years this Dutch diplomat, scholar and Mayor of Amsterdam gathered information about the physical features, the flora, the fauna and the peoples of the northern and eastern parts...(展开全部)