Black Horse Odyssey
ISBN: 1 86254 270 8
Publisher: Wakefield Press 1991
The search for the lost city of Rome in China
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Imagine waking up each day knowing you have reliable clues to the lost city of Rome in China but not going to look. Impossible. I had in my hands the life's work of the Oxford Professor of Chinese who'd identified a possible location.
So I set out to search for Li-jien, built by Romans in China 1300 years
before Marco Polo entered Cathay. I was alone, an amateur, I didn't
know the language, and I was broke.
Every step on the road to Li-jien surprised me. It led me to high officials and slums, priceless friends, bizarre adventures, a woman I married beneath a willow tree near the Yellow River, a massacre of innocents, and to ruins in the desert where the Gobi meets the ramparts of the Qilian Range.
Those ruins are a Chinese National Monument and focus of international interest.
Awards
- Visiting Fellowship, University of New England
- Virgiliana Medal, Italian Encyclopedic Institute, for identification of Lijian
- ArtSA, quick response travel grant
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