Conquering the Desert of Death : (Record no. 33724)
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9781845115821 |
| 041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE | |
| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | English |
| 082 ## - Class No | |
| Classification number | 915.150 |
| Author Mark | BLA |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | Blackmore, Charles |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Conquering the Desert of Death : |
| Remainder of title | Across the Taklamakan |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | Charles Blackmore |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | London |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Tauris Parke Paperbacks |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2008 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| extent | 268 pages |
| other physical details | pbk |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | The ferocious Taklamakan desert in Central Asia, one of the largest sandy deserts in the world and the harshest on earth, is known by the Chinese as the desert of death or the place of no return. 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, in 1993, 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.<br/>This edition features a new Preface by [Blackmore]. |
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| Subject Headings | Dessert, Essays and Travelogue |
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| Dewey Decimal Classification | 915_150000000000000_BLA | 900 History and Geography | Library Dept. of Political Science | Library Dept. of Political Science | Roedad Khan's Collection DPOS | 03/11/2025 | 915.150 BLA | DPOS370 | 03/11/2025 | 03/11/2025 | Books |