The Lost Camels Of Tartary - A Quest into Forbidden China (Paperback, New Ed)

In 1993, Hare, international conservationist, children's author and sometime BBC correspondent who had acquired a knowledge of camels from his African work, began a series of four expeditions into the Mongolian Gobi and China's remote, forbidding Xinjiang Province in search of the wild Bactrian camel. Considered one of the world's rarest animals (more endangered than the giant panda), the Bactrian camel survives in a fraction of its original range and numbers in the inhospitable Gobi Desert - an area which Hare recently helped make a sanctuary for the camels. This excitingly paced, well-written travel adventure and wildlife conservation story is destined to become a classic of the genre. (Kirkus UK)

John Hare has made three expeditions to the Mongolian and Chinese Gobi deserts, the first in 1993 with Russian scientists and the second and third with Chinese scientists in 1995 and 1996. The book records the amazing adventures he has experienced on those expeditions and will record details of the 30-day walk on foot in the formidable Kum Tagh sand dunes in the spring of 1997. He is the first recorded foreigner to have crossed the Gashun Gobi from north to south.
The expeditions were primarily concerned with tracking down the mysterious wild Bactrian camel 'camelus bactrianus ferus' which lives in the heartland of the desert and is the ancestor of all domestic Bactrian stock. There are under a thousand left in the world and the wild Bactrian camel is more endangered than the giant Panda.
This is John Hare's magnificent account of a formidable feat of modern exploration.
 

General

Imprint:	Abacus
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	July 1999
First published:	July 1999
Authors:	John Hare (Author)
Foreword by:	Jane Goodall
Dimensions:	196 x 126 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - B-format
Pages:	240
Edition:	New Ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-349-11146-9
Categories:	Books > Sport & Leisure > Natural history, country life & pets > Wild animals > General Books > Sport & Leisure > Travel & holiday > Travel writing > General Books > Travel > Travel writing > General Promotions
LSN:	0-349-11146-4
Barcode:	9780349111469

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