This document shall help the teachers who are going to introduce Silk Road - to students. We must The Silk Road is a fabled route that has been shaped by some of the most extraordinary tracts of land on this planet. A vast region separating China from the Mediterranean, it rates not only as a millennia-old trade route but also as one of the least hospitable on Earth - a succession of hostile deserts and towering mountain ranges, harsh terrain of howling winds, searing heat, and blistering cold. This book weaves together the personal experience of almost ridiculous endurance - sleeping on steaming rocks in the middle of a sub-zero desert, courting altitude sickness in the otherwise meditative Himalaya, risking the anthrax spores of Voz Island's post-Stalinist wasteland - with the bigger picture of our planet's new 'lost worlds' and their peoples, this is brilliant adventure writing from a man who has dared to go places that often history has feared to tread.

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Read More about
His Highness The Dalai Lama
(Read his quotes and life lessons)
(The Movie is a just suggestion, based on the mention of Tibet, you can watch it.)
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Silk Road, also called the Silk Route, an ancient trade route, linking China with the
West, that carried goods and ideas between the two great civilizations of Rome and
China. Silk went westward, and wools, gold, and silver went east. China also
received Nestorian Christianity and Buddhism (from India) via the Silk Road.
(Know More: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Silk-Road-trade-route)

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Read about Mount Kailash - https://sacredland.org/mount-kailash-tibet/
A Very Interesting Reading: https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20160831-a-
new-trade-on-the-ancient-silk-route

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LESSON NOTES (The Chapter is taken from the book.)
Book Cover
http://www.nickmiddleton.net/
The Silk Road is a fabled route that has been shaped by some of the most
extraordinary tracts of land on this planet. A vast region separating China from
the Mediterranean, it rates not only as a millennia-old trade route but also as one
of the least hospitable on Earth - a succession of hostile deserts and towering
mountain ranges, harsh terrain of howling winds, searing heat, and blistering
cold.
This book weaves together the personal experience of almost ridiculous
endurance - sleeping on steaming rocks in the middle of a sub-zero desert,
courting altitude sickness in the otherwise meditative Himalaya, risking the
anthrax spores of Voz Island's post-Stalinist wasteland - with the bigger picture
of our planet's new 'lost worlds' and their peoples, this is brilliant adventure
writing from a man who has dared to go places that often history has feared to
tread.

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https://youtu.be/5SxzAU7GQTc
Going to Extremes: The Silk Routes
Author – Nick Middleton
Nick Middleton is an award-winning geographer, writer, TV presenter,
environmental scientist, and university lecturer. His curiosity about how planet
Earth works and how people interact with it was fuelled from an early age by his
family’s world atlas, Herge’s Adventures of Tintin and an endless flow of Willard
Price novels. Now he works and communicates on a wide variety of
environmental issues and travel topics for a broad range of audiences, from
government policymakers to primary-school children. He also teaches at the
University of Oxford where he is a Fellow of St Anne’s College.
Nick is the author of seven travel books, including the bestseller, Going to
Extremes, which accompanied a television series he wrote and presented for
Channel 4 and the National Geographic Channel on extreme environments and
the people who live in them. His TV documentaries have been broadcast all over
the world and his books translated into more than a dozen languages.