THE STONE TOWER: PTOLEMY, THE SILK ROAD, AND A 2,000-YEAR-OLD RIDDLE

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  • Pub Date : Feb – 2022
  • Author : Riaz Dean
  • Publisher : Viking
  • Category : Non-fiction
  • Binding Type : Hardback
  • Price : 599
  • ISBN : 9780670093625

ABOUT THE BOOK

A path traversed by caravans laden with silk, spices and much more
besides, the old Silk Road influenced trade, religions, cultures and
economies across Europe, Asia and far beyond.

In his latest book, Riaz Dean blends the best of this region's history and
geography with ancient cartography to solve a 2,000-year-old riddle that
has perplexed scholars for centuries: Where was the Stone Tower that
the great geographer Claudius Ptolemy had written about? This highly
significant but now-lost landmark represented the midpoint and
thumping heart of the Silk Road, as merchant caravans plied their wares
between the Occident and the Orient.

From the significance of the Heavenly Horses to the intrigues of
geopolitics and war between clans and kingdoms, Dean brings to life the
legendary Silk Road even as his evocative narrative and meticulous
research pinpoints the Stone Tower's probable location somewhere by
the so-called Roof of the World.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

This book is the result of a solo journey the author made retracing the
old Silk Road. Along the way, amongst the mountains of Central Asia he
stumbled across a landmark that, upon later researching the maps of
Ptolemy, he came to realise was the geographer’s lost Stone Tower. Riaz
Dean collects old book and maps about the exploration of this region,
which also formed the basis for his first book Mapping the Great Game.

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