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EDWARDES, MICHAEL. East-west Passage: The Travel Of Ideas, Arts And Inventions Between Asia And The Western World.
Taplinger, NY: 1971. Hardcover with dustjacket. Good condition. Purports to be the first work in any language to examine the cultural interchange between Asia and the Western world from earliest times until the modern era. Its purpose is to show something of the still largely unacknowledged debt the peoples of the world owe to each other's civilizations and cultures, and among other things, the Chinese contribution of moveable type, gunpowder, and the magnetic compass. Includes Index. ¶ 248 pages.
Offered for US$ 16.30 by: Ad Infinitum Books - Book number: 3627X1
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