The Silk Road : Paperback : Oxford University Press Inc : 9780190218423 : 0190218428 : 22 Oct 2015 : The Silk Road conjures up an image a lone traveler carrying silk as he sits atop a camel and moves along a desert highway. This book offers concrete evidence for what he was really carrying and where he was heading, looking at the key sites along the multiple silk roads, using newly discovered documents preserved in the sands of the Taklamakan Desert.