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The "Silk Road" must be the most romanticised route in the world. It conjures up pictures from all of our fairy tales, of castles and minarets and oriental folk in strange garb. For me personally it conjures a hard-paved road I once walked in the foothills of the Annapurnas - a strange cart-scale highway across an expanse of nothing that led from a hill-pass to an impoverished town that reeked of faded grandeur echoed only now in the ornate unpainted ...
...they straightened from bent work in the fields and the proud defiance of their menfolk who sat by and watched. The road, of course, is no such thing. It is a vague notion of a route. It covers 7000 miles or more from Xian in the depths of China to Antioch, only just into Turkey and now called Antakya. To cover the whole in a single journey is more ambition than even the agent merchants ever had. The eponymous silk that travelled this road in ancient ...

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