Central Asia
‘Many a time in spring, when the melting snows let me venture further into the interior, I would turn my back on the southern horizon, which enclosed the seas and the islands that we know, and on the western horizon likewise, where at some point the sun was setting on Rome, and would dream of pushing still further into the steppes or beyond the ramparts of Caucasus, towards the North or to uttermost Asia….’ Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian (Paris 1951)
