Gobi
Tracking the Desert
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1997
Weidenfeld & Nicolson (Verlag)
978-0-297-81859-5 (ISBN)
Weidenfeld & Nicolson (Verlag)
978-0-297-81859-5 (ISBN)
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Following in the footsteps of the few who have crossed the Gobi desert, the author traces the desert's history and portrays this great wilderness in all its variety. He draws on the journeys of ecologists, camel herders, palaeontologists, Mongolians, Chinese and missionaries.
Following in the footsteps of the few who have trod the Gobi desert, the author relives its extraordinary history and portrays the world's last great wildernessin all its variety.This is an extremely rich book which uses firsthand experiences of travelling in Mongolia for two months with nomads, herdsman, and paloentologists to relive the past of this extraordinary wilderness, and to explore the Gobi as it is today.
Following in the footsteps of the few who have trod the Gobi desert, the author relives its extraordinary history and portrays the world's last great wildernessin all its variety.This is an extremely rich book which uses firsthand experiences of travelling in Mongolia for two months with nomads, herdsman, and paloentologists to relive the past of this extraordinary wilderness, and to explore the Gobi as it is today.
John Man is the author of Jungle Nomads of Ecuador, an account of an Amazonian Indian tribe with whom he lived for two years, and The Survival of Jan Little. His work in television includes a 6-part Channel 4 documentary on human endurance, and for Radio 4 he has made a series on survivors, the second partof which will be broadcast in 1996. He is married to the playwright, Timberla
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 14.7.1997 |
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Zusatzinfo | 16pp b&w photographs, 8 colour photographs |
Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 165 x 240 mm |
Gewicht | 561 g |
Themenwelt | Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Asien |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
ISBN-10 | 0-297-81859-7 / 0297818597 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-297-81859-5 / 9780297818595 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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