Why 'Silk Roads', as a term, is more evocative than it is accurate
Why ‘Silk Roads’, as a term, is more evocative than it is accurate An excerpt from ‘India and the Silk Roads: The History of a Trading World’, by Jagjeet Lally. The Silk Road in art. The German traveller and geographer Baron Ferdinand von Richthoften (1833–1905) travelled as part of the Eulenberg Expedition from Prussia to Asia, publishing his findings from 1877 to 1912 in five volumes. Richthofen and Sven Hedin were creatures of their time, moulded in the age of high imperialism when the competitive colonialism of the European powers raised the status of geography, cartogra...
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