Roads to Xanadu: East and West In the Making of the Modern World

by John Merson

ROADS TO XANADU IS A JOURNEY THROUGH WORLD HISTORY THAT FOLLOWS THE DIFFERENT ROADS TAKEN BY NATIONS TO ACHIEVE WEALTH AND POWER. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0297797077
• ISBN13: 9780297797074
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Trafalgar Square
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 3.37 lbs.

Customer Reviews

The Pleasure Dome

This is an excellent book which follows the development of invention in history. It begins in China, but also looks at invention in Europe and Japan.Nice pictures and not too academic in content make this highly readable!