The Alluring Target: In Search of the Secrets of Central Asia - Softcover

Wimmel, Kenneth

 
9781879434486: The Alluring Target: In Search of the Secrets of Central Asia
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1879434482 ISBN 13: 9781879434486
Verlag: Premier Book Marketing Ltd, 1997

Inhaltsangabe

Daring expeditions on camel and yak; biplanes buffeted by gales in the Himalayas; shootouts with bandits as paleontologists race across the Mongolian steppes; lost cities beneath desert dunes, priceless art treasures and manuscripts along the ancient Silk Road - here are real-life adventures in the great uncharted "alluring target" of Central Asia at the dawn of the modern age.
Rescued from obscurity and profiled in compelling detail are eleven explorers, scientists, mystics, and just plain adventures - including two indomitable women - who journeyed through this forbidding region between 1890 and 1935 and brought back its secrets, its treasures, its knowledge, and, as vividly presented in The Alluring Target, fascinating accounts of their travels.

Die Inhaltsangabe kann sich auf eine andere Ausgabe dieses Titels beziehen.

Verlag
Premier Book Marketing Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
1997
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1879434482
ISBN 13 
9781879434486
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
256
Kontakt zum Hersteller
Nicht verfügbar
Verantwortliche Person
Nicht verfügbar