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product_id: 27891749
title: "Silk Road to Ruin"
price: "¥7930"
currency: JPY
in_stock: true
category: "Paperback"
url: https://www.desertcart.jp/products/27891749-silk-road-to-ruin
store_origin: JP
region: Japan
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# Silk Road to Ruin

**Price:** ¥7930
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- **What is this?** Silk Road to Ruin
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## Description

Part graphic novel travelogue, part tongue-in-cheek travel guide, this collection gathers the adventures of caustic cartoonist Ted Rall in the wild and woolly central Asian countries, a veritable powder keg sitting atop the oil the world will need tomorrow. The book combines articles with comics in chapters that relate Rall’s experiences retracing the legendary Silk Road, from the sublime history of China to the absurdity of the present-day petty dictatorships of the “The ’Stans,” to which the author had the temerity—or perhaps stupidity—to return, including once with a group of listeners on his radio show, on a dare. This always-lively compendium offers readers an exotic adventure, satire, and a fun way to find out more about an often overlooked part of the world that looms in importance with its immense, and immensely coveted, reserves of oil.

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*Last updated: 2026-03-10*