Die Wüste Lop Nor by Raoul Schrott
A contemplative travelogue that follows an expedition into the barren Lop Nor basin and uses the desert’s ruins and ruins’ histories as a lens to weave together archaeology, ancient trade routes, myth and modern political uses of the landscape; it juxtaposes vivid, sensory descriptions of sand and salt flats with meditations on vanished peoples, the traces of Silk Road cultures and the violence of twentieth-century state projects, turning the empty terrain into a meditation on memory, loss and the fragility of human presence.
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