Mysteries of the Gobi : searching for wild camels and lost cities in the heart of Asia /: searching for wild camels and lost cities in the heart of Asia. (2009)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: John Hare.
• Other Names: Hare, John
• Contents: Preface * The Call of the Wild * Beyond the Dunes * Sweet as Eden is the Air * Take Flight and Follow * Hie to the Deserts Wild * Death's Shadow at the Door * Over the Unknown Pass * The Desert's Dusty Face * The Secrets of the Sands * Greater than Anyone Thinks * Appendix 1 - The Current Situation of the Uighurs in Xinjiang * Appendix 2 - The First Published Account of the Wild Bactrian Camel by Colonel Nikolai Mikhailovich Przhevalsky * Appendix 3 - Spies among the Kazakhs * Bibliography * Acknowlegements *.
• Publisher Details: London : I.B. Tauris
• Publication Date: 2009
• Extent: 1 online resource (xv, 237 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates), illustrations, map, portraits
• Subjects: 915.173; Bactrian camel -- Monitoring; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical; TRAVEL -- Asia -- General; Travel; Gobi Desert (Mongolia and China) -- Description and travel; Asia -- Gobi Desert; Electronic books; Travel -- Gobi Desert (Mongolia and China)
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780857736451; 0857736450
• Related ISBNs: 9781845115128; 1845115120
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.