Uzbekistan: The Golden Road to Samarkand

by Calum Macleod

From the blue-tiled splendor of Tamerlane's Samarkand to the holy city of Bukhara, which boasts a mosque for each day of the year, and beyond to the desert-girdled khanate of Khiva, Uzbekistan lays claim to a breathtaking architectural legacy. Bound by sand and snow, fed by meltwater from the Roof of the World, these fertile oases attracted the greatest travelers and conquerors in history along the fragile threads of the Silk Road. This groundbreaking...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 962217891X
• ISBN13: 9789622178915
• Release Date: March 2021
• Publisher: Odyssey Books & Maps
• Length: 392 Pages