This is an auction for GOBI: TRACKING THE DESERT by John Man.

Amazon.com reviews:

"The Gobi desert in Mongolia has long been considered a wasteland of searing heat, polar cold, and brutal sandstorms. For seventy years, it was all but barred to outsiders by Mongolia's position as a buffer state between Russia and China. The collapse of communism gave John Man a chance to travel through the Gobi. Retracing the steps of early explorers, living with herdsmen, and drawing on the most recent scientific work, he has created the first accessible portrait of this little-known wilderness. Man describes the Gobi's national parks (one of which is the second largest in the world), its snow-capped mountains, sandstone canyons, towering dunes, and "singing sands." He tells us about its ephemeral snow leopards, its desert bears, and the world's only species of wild horse. He relates exciting stories of earlier expeditions and captures the ancient land of the Gobi on the brink of change, as research intensifies, the population increases, the herdsmen become owners of motorbikes."

“FIVE STARS!! The author's visit to Mongolia is escalated to excellence through two key things: the detail he provides about a little-documented country, and the insight that bridges Western concepts of society and natural beauty with those of Mongolia. If you have even the slightest interest in the area Man will draw you in completely.”

“FIVE STARS: In addition to being very well written, the book has a wonderful mix of history, science, and anthropology. Within its pages one finds expositions on the lives of snow leopards, musings on the challenges that nomadic hospitality faces when faced with modernity, and great descriptions of desert landscapes.”

Hardback 1997.

212 pages + photographs..

Very good condition.

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There is of course no charge for shipping if you collect this book from my shop in Palmerston North following the auction.

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