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John Hare is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and the Explorers Club of America. As well as living and working in Africa for many years, he has made several expeditions to the Mongolian Gobi and China's remote Xinjiang Province. He was the first foreigner to be invited to visit Lop Nur for over 45 years and the first foreigner in recorded history to cross the Gashun Gobi from north to south. In 1997 he founded the Wild Camel Protection Foundation and, with Chinese colleagues, established a 175,000 square kilometer Nature Reserve in Mongolia for the wild Bactrian camel. He is the recipient of the Royal Geographical Society’s Ness Award, the Royal Society of Asian Affairs’ Lawrence of Arabia Memorial Gold Medal and the Royal Scottish Geographical Society’s Mungo Park Medal for distinguished contributions to exploration. He is the author of The Lost Camels of Tartary and Shadows across the Sahara.
Preface | |
The Call of the Wild | |
Beyond the Dunes | |
Sweet as Eden is the Air | |
Take Flight and Follow | |
Hie to the Deserts Wild | |
Death's Shadow at the Door | |
Over the Unknown Pass | |
The Desert's Dusty Face | |
The Secrets of the Sands | |
Greater than Anyone Thinks | |
The Current Situation of the Uighurs in Xinjiang | |
The First Published Account of the Wild Bactrian Camel | |
Spies among the Kazakhs | |
Bibliography | |
Acknowlegements | |
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