Chinese Silks

Reducere. Description"There can only be one Tai-Pan." Dirk Struan rose from humble beginnings to build Struan & Company, also known as the Noble House, into ...

Reducere. The pursuit of style has prompted centuries of dramatic change in fashion--and author R. Turner Wilcox researched and documented it all in this com...

The phrase ``silk road`` evokes vivid scenes of merchants leading camel caravans across vast stretches to trade exotic goods in glittering Oriental...

Reducere. Marco Polo was the most famous traveller of his time. His voyages began in 1271 with a visit to China, after which he served the Kubilai Khan on nu...

Reducere. Description"A fascinating, fast-paced history...full of remarkable characters and incredible stories" about the nineteenth-century American dynasti...

Reducere. During the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries, the transpacific treasure galleons sailed annually from Manila to Acapulco. In Manila, the vessel...