The Last Secrets Of The Silk Road

Four Girls Follow Marco Polo Across 5,000 Miles

Alexandra Tolstoy (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

224 Seiten

2003 | Main
Profile Books Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-86197-393-1 (ISBN)

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For centuries the Silk Road across Central Asia was the great trade route between East and West. Four British girls made an eight-month, 2000-mile journey by horse and camel along it through some of the least-known regions of the world. This book by one of the riders tells the story of that journey.

Their route had seen Genghis Khan, Tamerlane, the Great Game. No one else had completed this journey since the Middle Ages - one that took them through Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kirghizstan, the Taklamakan Desert, mountains and wastelands, ending up in the terminus city of Xi'an in China. Alexandra Tolstoy's absorbing book records the extremes of landscape and climate, the people they met, friendships and tensions, camaraderie and adventures.

Alexandra Tolstoy is at present establishing a travel company which will organise riding, trekking and mountaineering tours in Central Asia. The daughter of the historian Nikolai Tolstoy, she is a distant cousin of the famous novelist Count Leo.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	27.3.2003
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	162 x 241 mm
Gewicht	495 g
Themenwelt	Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Asien
ISBN-10	1-86197-393-4 / 1861973934
ISBN-13	978-1-86197-393-1 / 9781861973931
Zustand	Neuware