Lands of lost borders : out of bounds on the Silk Road
In the spirit of The Places in Between and Into the Silence, this is a transcendent memoir about travelling wildly out of bounds on the fabled Silk Road. "Carried me up into a state of excitement I haven't felt for years. It's a modern classic.
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| Harris, Kate, 1982- > Travel > Silk Road. Cycling > Silk Road. Silk Road > Description and travel. |
- ISBN: 9780345816771
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Physical Description
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300 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm - Publisher [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2018.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Prologue -- Part one. 1. Marco made me do it - North America -- 2. Roof of the world - Tibetan Plateau -- 3. Natural history - England and New England -- Part two. 4. Undercurrents - Black Sea -- 5. The Cold War awakens - Lesser Caucasus -- 6. Angle of incidence - Greater Caucasus -- 7. Borderlandia - Caspian Sea -- Part three. 8. Wilderness/Wasteland - Ustyurt Plateau and Aral Sea Basin -- 9. The source of a river - Pamir Knot -- 10. A mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam - Tarim Basin and Tibetan Plateau -- 11. Road's end - Indo-Gangetic Plain and Greater Himalaya -- Epilogue. |