The Future of the Silk Road: A Discussion with Tim Winters
New Books in Geography
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The Silk Road: A Single Line
He was surveying in North America for the transcontinental railway line that was joining up the coastlines there. And so with Germany industrialising and possibilities of large scale conflict potentially looming on the horizon, there was obviously a high demand for coal in Europe. Interesting though that it was the grubby business of coal and not spices and various luxurious items. Well that was a, he was using both Chinese and European sources to make his point. There was evidence of trade between regions and between market towns in different areas of both east Asia and across to west Asia. The centuries straddling the beginning of the Christian era is a miskind of representation of that much more complicated history of pre-
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