EXTREMES ALONG THE SILK ROAD: ADVENTURES OFF THE WORLD'S OLDEST SUPERHIGHWAY
by MIDDLETON, NICK
List Price: HK$ 140.00
ISBN
9780719567209
Subject
TRAVEL
Publisher
JOHN MURRAY UK
Publication
2006
Edition
Paperback
Version
Original
Description
Groundbreaking traveller and TV personality Nick Middleton follows in the footsteps of Alexander the Great and Marco Polo across one of the least hospitable regions on Earth – a succession of hostile deserts and towering mountain ranges, a harsh terrain of howling winds, searing heat and blistering cold – to encounter those who eke out existences there today. Personal experience of almost ridiculous endurance – sleeping on steaming rocks in the middle of a sub-zero desert and risking the anthrax spores of Vozrozhdeniye Island’s post-Stalinist wasteland – is woven together with the bigger picture of our planet’s new ‘lost worlds
