Conquering the Desert of Death: Across the Taklamakan (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 24 hours | |Short Description for Conquering the Desert of Death The Taklamakan desert, is known by the Chinese as the 'desert of death' - you go in but you don't come out. But, Charles Blackmore together with a team of British, Chinese and Uyghurs, set out to cross the Taklamakan. This work presents a story of an adventure that can go down in history as one of the great achievements of exploration.
Full description- Publisher: Tauris Parke Paperbacks
- Published: 04 March 2008
- Format: Paperback 288 pages
- See: Full bibliographic data
- Categories: Geographical Discovery & Exploration | Guidebooks | Travel Writing | Expeditions
- ISBN 13: 9781845115821 ISBN 10: 1845115821
- Sales rank: 410,394
Full description for Conquering the Desert of Death
The ferocious Taklamakan desert, the harshest on earth, is known by the Chinese as the 'desert of death' or the 'place of no return' - you go in but you don't come out. It sustains no life and has taken the lives of many of those who have ventured in. Its unknown depths are said to be haunted by demons and spirits and legend has it that ancient cities filled with treasure lie lost and buried beneath its dunes. The only certainty is that no human being in history had ever crossed it from end to end. But, after five years of planning, Charles Blackmore together with a team of British, Chinese and Uyghurs and a caravan of thirty camels, set out to accomplish the seemingly impossible: they would cross the Taklamakan, west to east, directly through its unmapped, untrodden centre. "Conquering the Desert of Death" is at once a deeply personal journey and the story of an adventure that will go down in history as one of the great achievements of exploration.
