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The Worst Desert on Earth: Crossing the Taklamakan
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bookshelves: favorites, non-fiction, travel, true-accounts, asian, china
Mar 22, 2013
bookshelves: favorites, non-fiction, travel, true-accounts, asian, china
It was an impossible feat - a feat likened in importance to the first ascent of the Everest. Crossing the length of the notorious Taklamakan desert in China - the worst desert on Earth, whose name means in the local Uighur language - "Go in and you won't come out" - The Desert of Death. The desert had lived up to its reputation - so far.
Before Charles Blackmore and his team achieved this feat, no explorer who had gone in had ever come back alive fulfilling his travel plans. They either never came back, or turned back early.
But Blackmore and his team crossed the desert, alive. And discovered traces of a dead civilization that no one had ever seen before, at least for 17 centuries. How did the team defeat this monster of a desert?
Read on to relish vicariously "the true spirit of adventure that only ever touches a handful people in life."
Before Charles Blackmore and his team achieved this feat, no explorer who had gone in had ever come back alive fulfilling his travel plans. They either never came back, or turned back early.
But Blackmore and his team crossed the desert, alive. And discovered traces of a dead civilization that no one had ever seen before, at least for 17 centuries. How did the team defeat this monster of a desert?
Read on to relish vicariously "the true spirit of adventure that only ever touches a handful people in life."
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Oct 30, 2016 09:38AM
Waiting to get a copy of this book...soon...c'mon having a convoy which is travelling parallel to the caravan of camels is not exactly cheating. .it's a life and death situation so surely good and water were high priorities..
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