The Desert Road To Turkestan by Richmond Lattimore
A vivid travel memoir of a young traveler’s camel-caravan journey across the Gobi and into Central Asia in the 1920s, blending hard-earned details of desert logistics with keen observations of traders, herders, and officials along an old Silk Road route. Enduring sandstorms, thirst, bandit scares, and bureaucratic tangles, the narrator captures the textures of market towns and frontier camps while tracing the shifting politics, cultures, and economies of a remote borderland in transition.
- Published
- 1928
- Nationality
- American
- Length
- Medium
- Pages
- 250-300
- Original Language
- English
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