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Extremes Along the Silk Road - Adventures Off the World's Oldest Superhighway (Paperback, Airport/ Export ed)
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Extremes Along the Silk Road - Adventures Off the World's Oldest Superhighway (Paperback, Airport/ Export ed)
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List price R360
Loot Price R288
Discovery Miles 2 880
You Save R72 (20%)
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The Silk Road is the fabled route that cuts through one of the most
extraordinary tracts of land on this planet. A vast region
separating China from the Mediterranean, it rates as one of the
least hospitable on Earth -- a succession of hostile deserts and
towering mountain ranges, a harsh terrain of howling winds, searing
heat and blistering cold. No stranger to unforgiving territory,
Nick Middleton follows in the footsteps of Alexander the Great and
Marco Polo overland from China to Istanbul, surviving as they did
the life-sapping Gobi desert, the icy passes of high altitude
Tibet, and the great Steppes of Turkmenistan, and encounters those
who eke out existences there today. Nick's great gift as an
adventure writer is to weave together the personal experience of
ridiculous endurance - from sleeping on steaming rocks in the
middle of a sub-zero desert to eating the most dubiously-cooked
local delicacies - with the bigger picture of our planet and its
peoples. The four-part journey of this stand-alone book will also
be the subject of a major Channel Four prime time series.
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