Download or read book Silk Roads and Shadows written by Susan Shwartz and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 1988 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a blight threatens Byzantium's silk industry, Alexandra, the sister of the Emperor, journeys across Tibet to the Empire of Ch'in, in hopes of smuggling live silkworms back to Byzantium