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020			_a9781845115821
041			_aEnglish
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100			_aBlackmore, Charles
245			_aConquering the Desert of Death : _bAcross the Taklamakan _cCharles Blackmore
260			_aLondon _bTauris Parke Paperbacks _c2008
300			_a268 pages _bpbk
500			_aThe 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. This edition features a new Preface by [Blackmore].
650			_aDessert, Essays and Travelogue
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