The Desert Road to Turkestan

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Titel:      The Desert Road to Turkestan
Kategorie:      Turkestan
BuchID:      2311
Autor:      Owen Lattimore
ISBN-10(13):      978-1568360706
Verlag:      Kodansha America, Inc
Publikationsdatum:      08/1995
Seitenanzahl:      387
Sprache:      Englisch
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Beschreibung:     

In inner Mongolia in 1927, when travel by rail had all but eclipsed the traditional camel caravan, Owen Lattimore embarked on the journey that would establish him as a legendary adventurer and leader among Asian scholars. THE DESERT ROAD TO TURKESTAN is Lattimore's elegant and spirited account of his harrowing expedition across the famous "Winding Road."

Setting off to rejoin his wife for their honeymoon in Chinese Turkestan, Lattimore was forced to contend with marauding troops, a lack of maps, scheming travel companions, and blinding blizzard. Luckily he had with him not only his father's retainer, Moses, but a team of camel pullers and Chinese traders he had assembled to teach him the ropes about their mysterious and now extinct way of life.

Lattimore's gifts as a linguist and his remarkable powers of observation lend his chronicle an immediacy and force that has lost now of its impact in the decades since its original publication.

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