... Russian Turkestan Sand Buried Ruins of Khotan Stein Taghliks Uyghurs Xinjiang Gansu subsistence diggers treasure seekers archaeology expeditions China On December 1, 1906, amid the dusty dunes of an excavation near Maralbashi, the French sinologist Paul Pelliot learned that three of his heads...

... adventures begin when they improvise on texts rather than plagiarizing them. Nesbit’s use of a child narrator in The Story of the Treasure Seekers and its sequels provides child readers with an extended lesson in how to deviate from rather than ventriloquize what they read: Oswald Bastable...