For centuries, the "Silk Road" skirted the edge of the Taklamakan desert to north and south, following the lines of the isolated oasis towns. The Taklamakan was to the Chinese, "the desert of death", which "you go in but you never come out". This volume retraces the adventures of Charles Blackmore and his companions as they cross the Taklamakan, overcoming both scorching heat and bitter cold, surviving dysentry and water shortages and relentlessly attacking the endless and intimidating sand dunes.
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The Taklamakan is every bit as devilish as Blackmore records. - Far Eastern Economic Review
"Blackmore's great adventure consisted of leading an Anglo-Chinese expedition across one of the last unexplored places on earth ... A brilliant book." Angela Lambert. - Independent
This is the best book I have read for a considerable time. - Traveller
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Höhe: 18 mm
Breite: 130 mm
Dicke: 196 mm
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978-0-7195-6020-0 (9780719560200)
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Charles Blackmore read archaeology at university before spending fourteen years as an army officer. He now works in a merchant bank. His first book, "In the Footsteps of Lawrence of Arabia," was published in 1986. He has travelled extensively and led three significant expeditions. He lives in Hampshire with his wife and three sons.
The lure of the Taklamakan; the planning; the send-of; entering the desert; dysentery and the Sand Mountain; the Silk Road; triumph over Hedin; Mazartagh; the Chinese prison camp; all men dream; the Uyghurs; water crisis; discovering an ancient site; the Chinese; no more star-gazing; coping with Suleiman; a costly error; camp of death; a sinister twist; a desert conquered.
