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Author | : Rob Lilwall |
Publisher | : Hodder & Stoughton |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2013-11-21 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 1444745298 |
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Starting in the Gobi desert in winter, adventurer Rob Lilwall sets out on an extraordinary six-month journey, walking almost 5000 kilometres across China. Along the way he and his cameraman Leon brave the toxic insides of China's longest road tunnel, explore desolate stretches of the Great Wall and endure interrogation by the Chinese police. As they walk on through the heart of China, the exuberant hospitality of cave dwellers, coal miners and desert nomads keeps them going, despite sub-zero blizzards and the treacherous terrain. Rob writes with humour and honesty about the hardships of the walk, reflecting on the nature of pilgrimage and the uncertainties of an adventuring career. He also gives a unique insight into life on the road amid the epic landscapes and rapidly industrialising cities of backwater China.
Author | : Rob Lilwall |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 434 |
Release | : 2011-04-05 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1451607873 |
Download Cycling Home from Siberia Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
“ It is late October, and the temperature is already –40 degrees . . . My thoughts are filled with frozen rivers that may or may not hold my weight; empty, forgotten valleys haunted by emaciated ghosts; and packs of ravenous, merciless wolves.” Having left his job as a high-school geography teacher, Rob Lilwall arrived in Siberia equipped only with a bike and a healthy dose of fear. Cycling Home from Siberia recounts his epic three-and-a-half-year, 30,000-mile journey back to England via the foreboding jungles of Papua New Guinea, an Australian cyclone, and Afghanistan’s war-torn Hindu Kush. A gripping story of endurance and adventure, this is also a spiritual journey, providing poignant insight into life on the road in some of the world’s toughest corners.
Author | : Helen Thayer |
Publisher | : ReadHowYouWant.com |
Total Pages | : 378 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Gobi Desert (Mongolia and China) |
ISBN | : 1442967978 |
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In 2001, at the age of sixty-three, renowned adventurer Helen Thayer fulfilled her lifelong dream of crossing Mongolia's Gobi Desert. Accompanied by her seventy-four-year-old husband, Bill, and two camels, Tom and Jerry, Thayer walked 1600 miles in 126-degree temperatures, encountering fierce sandstorms, dehydration, dangerous drug smugglers, and ubiquitous scorpions. For more than sixty days Helen struggled to keep moving through some of the most inhospitable terrain on Earth, despite a severe leg injury. Without sponsors, a support team, or radio contact, hers is a journey of pure discovery and adventure. Walking the Gobi takes readers on a trip through a little-known landscape and introduces them to the culture of the nomadic people whose ancestors have eked out an existence in the Gobi for thousands of years. Thayer's respect and admiration for the culture of the Gobi and her gentle weaving in of natural history shine throughout this remarkable story.
Author | : Stephen Bodio |
Publisher | : Skyhorse Publishing, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2015-02-10 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 1629149292 |
Download Eagle Dreams Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Mongolia is a vast country located between Siberia and China, and little-known to outsiders. As Mongolia had long been under Soviet rule, it was inaccessible to Westerners. That was until 1990, when Stephen J. Bodio began planning his trip. As a boy, Bodio was always fascinated with nature. When he saw an image in National Geographic of a Kazakh nomad, dressed in a long coat and wearing a fur hat, holding a huge eagle on his fist, his life was changed from then on. When Mongolia became independent in 1990, Bodio knew that his dream to see the eagle hunters from the picture in National Geographic“/i> so many years ago was soon to become a reality. In Eagle Dreams, readers follow Bodio on his long-awaited trip to Mongolia, where he spent months with the people and birds of his dreams. He is finally able to visit the birth place of falconry and observe the traditions that have survived intact through the ages. Not only does he get to witness things most people will never be able to, but he’s also able to give life to his dreams and the people, landscapes, and animals of Mongolia that have become part of his soul.
Author | : Tim Cope |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 529 |
Release | : 2013-01-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1408825058 |
Download On the Trail of Genghis Khan Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The personal tale of an Australian adventurer's tragedy and triumph that is packed with historical insights. On the Trail of Genghis Khan is at once a celebration of and an elegy for an ancient way of life. Supported by an epic Australian and New Zealand Tour.
Author | : Ash Dykes |
Publisher | : Eye Books (US&CA) |
Total Pages | : 187 |
Release | : 2017-10-01 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 1785630474 |
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At the age of 23, Ash Dykes became the first person to walk, solo and unsupported, across Mongolia.His journey took 78 days and saw him trek over the Altai Mountains, the Gobi Desert and the Mongolian Steppe. It was an expedition filled with danger and extreme conditions. He almost didn't make it. Two years later he spent more than five months traversing the length of Madagascar, another world first. In Mission Possible, Ash reveals the spirit, planning, and sheer determination that went into these two record-breaking feats. Along the way we discover how a young man from Wales transformed himself into one of the globe's most acclaimed and exciting young adventurers.
Author | : Patricia Sexton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780825307973 |
Download Live from Mongolia Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The author discusses how she quit her job at a Wall Street investment bank to pursue her dream and become a foreign correspondent for a Mongolian news station.
Author | : George Crane |
Publisher | : Bantam |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2001-05-29 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0553379089 |
Download Bones of the Master Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In 1959 a young monk named Tsung Tsai (Ancestor Wisdom) escapes the Red Army troops that destroy his monastery, and flees alone three thousand miles across a China swept by chaos and famine. Knowing his fellow monks are dead, himself starving and hunted, he is sustained by his mission: to carry on the teachings of his Buddhist meditation master, who was too old to leave with his disciple. Nearly forty years later Tsung Tsai — now an old master himself — persuades his American neighbor, maverick poet George Crane, to travel with him back to his birthplace at the edge of the Gobi Desert. They are unlikely companions. Crane seeks freedom, adventure, sensation. Tsung Tsai is determined to find his master's grave and plant the seeds of a spiritual renewal in China. As their search culminates in a torturous climb to a remote mountain cave, it becomes clear that this seemingly quixotic quest may cost both men's lives.
Author | : Veronica Helen Hart |
Publisher | : Independently Published |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 2019-12-31 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781653828357 |
Download Midnight in Mongolia Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Doll and The Blenders are visiting Mongolia when two of them are mistakenly kidnapped by mystery men who think they took two executives in an elaborate ransom plot.When Doll is unable to get help from the police, she decides it is up to her to find her friends.Before long, as her friends struggle to survive in the wilds of Mongolia, Doll, assisted by her fiancé and one of the other Blenders, races against time and the elements to discover where her friends are. Will she find them before they disappear into the desert?
Author | : Tim Cahill |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 2011-03-30 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 0307778401 |
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In Pass the Butterworms Cahill takes us to the steppes of Mongolia, where he spends weeks on horseback alongside the descendants of Genghis Khan and masters the "Mongolian death trot"; to the North Pole, where he goes for a pleasure dip in 36-degree water; to Irian Jaya New Guinea, where he spends a companionable evening with members of one of the last head-hunting tribes. Whether observing family values among the Stone Age Dani people, or sampling delicacies like sautéed sago beetle and premasticated manioc beer, Cahill is a fount of arcane information and a master of self-deprecating humor.