{"product_id":"conquering-the-desert-of-death-across-the-taklamakan-tauris-parke-paperbacks-9781845115821","title":"Conquering the Desert of Death: Across the Taklamakan (Tauris Parke Paperbacks)","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eConquering the Desert of Death: Across the Taklamakan (Tauris Parke Paperbacks)\u003c\/strong\u003e by Blackmore, Charles. paperback edition. ISBN: 9781845115821.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe ferocious Taklamakan desert in Central Asia, one of the largest sandy deserts in the world and the harshest on earth, is known by the Chinese as the desert of death or the place of no return. Its unknown depths are said to be haunted by demons and spirits and legend has it that ancient cities filled with treasure lie lost and buried beneath its dunes. The only certainty is that no human being in history had ever crossed it from end to end. But, after five years of planning, in 1993, Charles Blackmore together with a team of British, Chinese and Uyghurs and a caravan of thirty camels, set out to accomplish the seemingly impossible: they would cross the Taklamakan, west to east, directly through its unmapped, untrodden centre. Conquering the Desert of Death is at once a deeply personal journey and the story of an adventure that will go down in history as one of the great achievements of exploration.\nThis edition features a new Preface by [Blackmore].\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45792516636725,"sku":"ByrdShop_1845115821","price":56.21,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781845115821_16bf1319-4ba1-4cb4-83ed-9e98c8ad3c1e_b67b9b20-fea1-4e0c-9b04-b376263f6246.jpg?v=1790247185","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/conquering-the-desert-of-death-across-the-taklamakan-tauris-parke-paperbacks-9781845115821","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}