The Last Secrets Of The Silk Road: Four Girls Follow Marco Polo Across 5,000 Miles

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Hardcover
2003
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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.

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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.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 224
Edition: Main
Publisher: Profile Books
Published: 27 Mar 2003
ISBN 10: 1861973934
ISBN 13: 9781861973931

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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 a unique 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 extraordinary 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.

Author Bio

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.