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The Desert Road to Turkestan
by Owen Lattimore
- EXPLORATION
- 1996
- PAPER
- 384 PAGES
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A classic tale of exploration, originally published in 1927. It tells of a daredevil journey by camel caravan through the high steppes of Inner Mongolia, a land inhabited by a sparse nomadic Mongol population. His first of many books, Lattimore tells much of the geography, history and culture of the region.
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