{"id":2361,"date":"2024-08-22T22:00:24","date_gmt":"2024-08-22T17:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/khowari.com\/?page_id=2361"},"modified":"2024-08-22T23:12:30","modified_gmt":"2024-08-22T18:12:30","slug":"ruins-of-desert-cathay-two-volumes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/khowari.com\/?page_id=2361","title":{"rendered":"Ruins of Desert Cathay (Volume I)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">(Personal Narrative of Explorations in Central Asia and Westernmost&nbsp;China)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Author: <strong>Sir Aurel Stein<\/strong> (1862 to 1943)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Published in <strong>1912<\/strong> by Macmillan London<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Courtesy: <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/texts\">Internet Archive<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The book (volume I) is a classic account of Aurel Stein&#8217;s 1906-08 second expedition to Chitral, Wakhan and Chinese Central Asia, incuding his discovery of the &#8220;Caves of the Thousand Buddhas&#8221; near Dunhuang China. 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