Books

First Book Newsletter

Here’s a recent promotional letter. Thanks everyone for the great response! ————————————- Greetings, I want to let you know about my new book from Wipf and Stock Publishers called Pilgrims on the Silk Road: A Muslim-Christian Encounter in Khiva. Pilgrims…

Latest Endorsement

http://www.pilgrimsonthesilkroad.com/ This endorsement really captures an important focus of the book: “Pilgrims on the Silk Road is a captivating story. The book has planted the Mennonite presence deeply in the encounter with a multi-sided Islamic culture. I cannot think of…

Book images and illustrations

http://www.pilgrimsonthesilkroad.com/ Click here to order a copy of Pilgrims on the Silk Road (The Great Highway of Central Asia – London Illustrated Daily, 1885) Among the features of Pilgrims on the Silk Road I am proud of are the woodcuts, photos…

Book Ready for Early Orders!

http://www.pilgrimsonthesilkroad.com/ Click Here for the Earlybird Discount! The book is now available – just in time for Christmas! The official release date is in January. However, the publisher has kindly released the book for sale now during the holiday season.…

The first book endorsements are in!

www.PilgrimsOnTheSilkRoad.com In Pilgrims on the Silk Road, Ratliff has brought to light a fascinating but little known chapter in the history of European involvement in Central Asia, along the silk road. His portrait of the Mennonite mission to Khiva makes…

Interlude in Bukhara

View Bukhara in a larger map (June 4, 2007) We spent most of the day visiting many of the historic sites in this Silk Road city. At the museum in the city’s main fortress, we found a photo of the…

Back to Serabulak

View Larger Map (June 3, 2007) Today we made the journey from Samarkand to Bukhara, with one very important stop along the way. About two hours into our bus ride, we took a detour to see the village of Serabulak.…

The Road to Samarkand

View Larger Map (June 2, 2007) We spent all day Wednesday in transit from Ukraine to Uzbekistan. We spent the day Thursday touring Tashkent. An earthquake in 1966 destroyed much of the old city. This meant that many structures of…

The Last Mennonite in Molotschna

View Larger Map (May 30, 2007) 11:00am – On Tuesday we visited the Molotschna villages southeast of Zaporozhe. The Mennonite colonies here covered a couple of hundred of square miles with dozens of villages. A majority of the participants had…