STEIN, Marc Aurel.

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Innermost Asia. Detailed Report of Exploration in Central Asia, Kan-Su and Eastern Iran. First edition of this comprehensive scientific report of Stein's 1913-16 expedition, during which he travelled to Kashgar and Khotan, and across the Pei-shan, the Turfan depression, and the Pamirs to Samarkand, before turning south through eastern Persia to Baluchistan. As with Stein's other expedition publications, the work is superbly produced and presented."Stein's great achievement... was to establish the existence of a hitherto lost civilization along the Silk Route in Chinese central Asia. Despite the fact that better-financed expeditions from Germany and France (led by Professor Albert Grunwedel and Albert von Le Coq, and Paul Pelliot respectively) worked in the same area, Stein was the first archaeologist to discover evidence of the spread of the Graeco-Buddhist culture of north-west India across Chinese Turkestan and into China itself" (ODNB).

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