Genghis Khan built a formidable land empire, but he never crossed the sea. Yet by the time his grandson Kublai Khan had defeated the last vestiges of the Song empire and established the Yuan dynasty in 1279, the Mongols controlled the most powerful navy in the world. How did a nomad come to conquer China and master the sea? Based on ten years of research and a lifetime of immer...(展开全部)

Genghis Khan built a formidable land empire, but he never crossed the sea. Yet by the time his grandson Kublai Khan had defeated the last vestiges of the Song empire and established the Yuan dynasty in 1279, the Mongols controlled the most powerful navy in the world. How did a nomad come to conquer China and master the sea? Based on ten years of research and a lifetime of immer...(展开全部)

In the late 8th and early 7th centuries BCE, Scythian warriors conquered and unified most of the vast Eurasian continent, creating an innovative empire that would give birth to the age of philosophy and the Classical age across the ancient world—in the West, the Near East, India, and China. Mobile horse herders who lived with their cats in wheeled felt tents, the Scythians made...(展开全部)

Edwin George Pulleyblank (Ted) was born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, in 1922, the son of W. G. E. Pulleyblank, a much respected high school teacher. He developed a strong interest in languages while still in high school and specialized in Greek and Latin Classics at the University of Alberta, where he graduated in 1942. During the Second World War he was engaged in intelligence...(展开全部)

A collection of papers on the history of Christianity along the Silk Road and in pre-modern China, pushing back the frontier of knowledge in a fast developing new area of research. The diffusion of Christianity along the Silk Road from Iraq and Iran to China in the premodern era has attracted scholarly attention in the West since the discovery of the famous Xian (Nestorian) Mon...(展开全部)

作者简介 詹尼•瓜达卢皮（Gianni Guadalupi），1943年生，作为作者、译者与编纂者从事出版工作30年，尤其关注与真实和想象的旅行相关的文学作品。目前，他担任意大利著名艺术和设计杂志FMR的编辑工作，是意大利旅游俱乐部（the Touring Club of Italiano）所办刊物《世界之路》（Le Vie del Mondo）的总编，该刊致力于介绍古代旅行故事。 译者简介 何高济，1933年生，毕业于北京大学西语系。曾在中国社会科学院从事文史研究。20世纪80年代移居巴西。在巴西生活与工作20多年间，多方收集明清时期外国人在中国进行文化交流的文字资料，并翻译了大量书籍和文献史料。翻译作品有：《世界征服者史》《马戛尔尼使团使华观感》《利玛窦中国札记》等