{"product_id":"sir-aurel-stein","title":"Sir Aurel Stein","description":"An extraordinary man, who advanced human knowledge on many fronts, Sir Aurel Stein (1862-1943) pursued dramatic adventure with scientific purpose. Jeannette Mirsky has drawn from Stein's voluminous outpouring of books and articles as well as from his letters and unpublished archival materials to produce a lively and definitive biography of this archaeological explorer, geographer, historical topographer, and linguist.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[Mirsky] has digested the correspondence, and she quotes so skillfully that her book will save many people the trouble of reading Stein's own exhaustive and exhausting volumes. Definitive.\"—Larry McMurtry, \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A first-rate and unique biography of one of the more significant explorers of Central Asia and the Indo-Iranian borderlands. . . . Mirsky has recreated not only the life of an intrepid explorer but the spirit of the times.\"—\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Mirsky has performed a signal service in distilling the life, travels, and letters of Aurel Stein into a manageable, graceful, and meaningful synthesis.\"—Theodore A. Wertime, \u003ci\u003eTechnology and Culture\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Jeannette Mirsky","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42818239299645,"sku":"9780226531779","price":47.66,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0597\/7689\/2989\/files\/9780226531779_18d35ac4-a2ea-441b-b382-6b487834a0e6.jpg?v=1766917220","url":"https:\/\/www.palmleaf.com.au\/products\/sir-aurel-stein","provider":"Palmleaf","version":"1.0","type":"link"}