The alluring target : in search of the secrets of Central Asia /
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...
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Washington [i.e.] Fairfax, Va. ; Palo Alto :
Trackless Sands Press,
c1996.
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Table of Contents:
- Ch. 1. The Alluring Target
- Ch. 2. Sven Hedin: Buried Cities Along the Ancient Silk Road
- Ch. 3. Arnold Henry Savage Landor: Latter Day Munchausen?
- Ch. 4. Sir Francis Younghusband: Matchlocks and Maxims at 15,000 Feet
- Ch. 5. Sir Aurel Stein: The Caves of the Thousand Buddhas
- Ch. 6. Alexandra David-Neel: Rational Mystic Among the Lamas
- Ch. 7. Roy Chapman Andrews: Dinosaur Eggs and Warlords
- Ch. 8. The Houston Expedition: Flying Over the Root of the World
- Ch. 9. Ella Maillart and Peter Fleming: "More an Escapade Than an Expedition."