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1.0 out of 5 stars
photos great; writing stinks,
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This review is from: Aurel Stein On The Silk Road. (Hardcover)
Whitfield does a great service in providing these lovely photos of artworks that rarely are exhibited at the British Museum or the other museums in the West, presumably because of political considerations. Even on the British Museum website it is difficult to see these wonderful paintings. When will the BM get smart and showcase these awesome artworks to the world? The design and use of graphics in this book are great. Where the book falls down, and falls down hard, is in the text. Mistakes in diction, punctuation, spelling, printing, spacing, countless dashes and colons, and endless run-on sentences with disconnected phrases, make Whitfield's prose almost unreadable. The subject is so interesting, it seems inconceivable that the book could be boring, but it is. Many of the paragraphs make little sense, and leave you wondering what she said. The photo captions are just as bad. If you, like me, are intrigued by this extraordinary man, I suggest you buy the discount version of this book for the pictures, and read the Walker biography for the story of Stein's life.
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Aurel Stein On The Silk Road. by Susan Whitfield (Hardcover - March 31, 2004)
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