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Informationen zum Autor Charles Blackmore is a noted author and explorer whose expeditions have included a 500-mile march retracing the British Army's 1808 retreat to Corunna in Spain and 700 miles by camel retracing T.E. Lawrence's journeys in the Middle East. He also spent 14 years in the British army serving in the Far East! Northern Ireland! Germany! Cyprus and Canada before leaving in 1993. He is the author of In the Footsteps of Lawrence of Arabia. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung The Taklamakan desert! is known by the Chinese as the 'desert of death' - you go in but you don't come out. But! Charles Blackmore together with a team of British! Chinese and Uyghurs! set out to cross the Taklamakan. This work presents a story of an adventure that can go down in history as one of the great achievements of exploration.
