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Walking the Gobi

Walking the Gobi

by Helen Thayer

  • TRAVEL NARRATIVE
  • 2008
  • PAPER
  • 272 PAGES

At the age of 63, Helen Thayer and her 74-year-old husband trekked on camel across Mongolia's Gobi Desert. Here, she recaptures the experience, seamlessly weaving within it a portrait of the nomadic cultures of the Gobi and the region's natural history.  (MGL56, $16.95)


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