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Title: An insightful view of a great explorer
Review: There have been two biographies written about Sir Aurel Stein: this admirable pioneering effort by Jeanette Mirsky, and Annabel Walker's "Aurel Stein--Pioneer of the Silk Road," which was published about 20 years later. Both are available on Amazon.com. I purchased and read both, and Amazon asked me to review them. I have done so and compared the two in a review under the Amazon.com entry for Walker's book. Please go to it if you would like a lengthy comparison. But the bottom line is: 1) in my view, Stein is an exemplar of the great life productively lived and he thus merits your attention whether you are that interested or not in Central Asian archaeology; and 2) of the two biographies produced on him, Walker's is clearly the one to read first and then, if you are hooked on Sir Aurel Stein (as I was), you will find Mirsky's book of value as a more personal view of the man. Again, more detail is to be found under my review of Walker's book.
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