This Lecture will be held on Tuesday 11th September 2012 at 11.00a.m. at The Queen's Hall, Narberth .

The Silk Road from China to the Mediterranean

Alan begins with a description of silk manufacture. He will then trace this 8000 mile route which religions, commerce and conquerors have travelled for the last 3000 years. Starting from Xian, the talk follows the Great Wall and passes over the Roof if the World. The caravans en route are drawn by camels, yaks, mules and horses. The journey continues through Samarkand and Isfahan to Syria and Turkey and thence on to Constantinople, Athens, Venice and Rome.
The talk, which will last an hour, was accompanied by beautiful colour slides, very many of them taken by Alan himself

 

 

Lecturer: Alan Bott OBE, MA

MR ALAN BOTT OBE is a Bodley Fellow of Merton College, Oxford.  During 40 years' service with P&O his work took him round the world 42 times (twice by sea). Alan is an Extramural University lecturer on the History of European Architecture, a NADFAS lecturer to 225 Societies and the author of ten books on architectural and antiquarian subjects.