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Genre/Form: | collective biographies Literature Biographies Juvenile works Littérature Juvenile literature Ouvrages pour la jeunesse |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Major, John S. Caravan to America. Chicago : Cricket Books, 2002 (OCoLC)742434021 |
Material Type: | Document, Elementary and junior high school, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
John S Major; Betty J Belanus |
OCLC Number: | 1148201290 |
Notes: | "A Marcato book." |
Description: | 1 online resource (130 pages : color illustrations) |
Contents: | Qi Shu Fang: Peking opera performer -- Doug Kim: Korean American martial artist -- Yeshi Dorjee: Tibetan artist-monk -- Abdul Khaliq Muradi: Turkmen rug restorer -- Tamara Katayev: Bukharan singer -- Najmieh Batmanglij: Iranian American cook -- La Verne J. Magarian: Armenian American calligrapher and paper artist -- Peter Kyvelos, Greek American oud maker. |
Responsibility: | John S. Major and Betty J. Belanus. |
Abstract:
Profiles eight artists and artisans now living in America who are originally from the "Silk Road," an ancient network of caravan trails through which trade goods, ideas, and arts pass between Asia and the Mediterranean.
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