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Author : Mildred Cable,Francesca French
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1946
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:644279497
Author : Weijian Shan
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781119529552
Foreword by Janet Yellen Weijian Shan's Out of the Gobi is a powerful memoir and commentary that will be one of the most important books on China of our time, one with the potential to re-shape how Americans view China, and how the Chinese view life in America. Shan, a former hard laborer who is now one of Asia's best-known financiers, is thoughtful, observant, eloquent, and brutally honest, making him well-positioned to tell the story of a life that is a microcosm of modern China, and of how, improbably, that life became intertwined with America. Out of the Gobi draws a vivid picture of the raw human energy and the will to succeed against all odds. Shan only finished elementary school when Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution tore his country apart. He was a witness to the brutality and absurdity of Mao's policies during one of the most tumultuous eras in China's history. Exiled to the Gobi Desert at age 15 and denied schooling for 10 years, he endured untold hardships without ever giving up his dream for an education. Shan's improbable journey, from the Gobi to the "People's Republic of Berkeley" and far beyond, is a uniquely American success story – told with a splash of humor, deep insight and rich and engaging detail. This powerful and personal perspective on China and America will inform Americans' view of China, humanizing the country, while providing a rare view of America from the prism of a keen foreign observer who lived the American dream. Says former Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen: "Shan's life provides a demonstration of what is possible when China and the United States come together, even by happenstance. It is not only Shan's personal history that makes this book so interesting but also how the stories of China and America merge in just one moment in time to create an inspired individual so unique and driven, and so representative of the true sprits of both countries."
Author : John Man
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0300076096
In intelligent, jargon-free prose, the author takes readers on a colorful tour of the Gobi Desert, from its natural wonders to its conflicts with society. Illustrations.
Author : Molly Aloian
Publisher : Deserts Around the World
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-24
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0778707180
Describes the geology & history of the Gobi Desert in Central Asia. The Gobi lies in the immense rain shadow of the Himalayas. It offers a wide variety of habitats, including large expanses of bare rock rather than sand. It is a cold desert and snow falls from time to time. This has led to the evolution of a unique ecology.
Author : Sven Hedin
Publisher : Jazzybee Verlag
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-10
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9783849663728
The socalled Sino-Swedish Expedition was a bilateral undertaking led by Sven Hedin that conducted scientific research in northern and northwestern China from 1927 to 1935. The expedition was particularly concerned with the meteorology, topography, and prehistory of Mongolia, the Gobi Desert, and Xinjiang. Chiang Kai-shek was one of the patrons of the expedition. In the years 1927-32 the party travelled from Beijing via Baotou, Mongolia, Gobi Desert, Xinjiang to Urumqi. Some of the adventures of these years are described in this book, that was originally published in 1931.
Author : Ginjer L. Clarke
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-04
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781524784928
Discover the desert in this fact-packed leveled reader! Welcome to the Gobi Desert, where you can find camels, scorpions, and even snow leopards! Explore this huge habitat and meet the many creatures that call it home. But keep an eye out for the ones that are no longer alive, too--the Gobi may have more dinosaur fossils than any other place on Earth! Learn more about this amazing place as well as how you can help protect and preserve it for future generations.
Author : Sven Hedin,Sven Anders Hedin
Publisher : Asian Educational Services
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : China
ISBN : 8120616146
Translated From The Swedish By Elizabeth Sprigge And Claude Napier
Author : Mildred Cable,Francesca French
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1950
Category : Gobi Desert (Mongolia and China)
ISBN : IOWA:31858015164555
Author : Sven Anders Hedin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1931
Category : Gobi
ISBN : LCCN:32007528
Author : Rob Lilwall
Publisher : Hodder & Stoughton
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-21
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781444745290
Starting in the Gobi desert in winter, adventurer Rob Lilwall sets out on an extraordinary six-month journey, walking almost 5000 kilometres across China. Along the way he and his cameraman Leon brave the toxic insides of China's longest road tunnel, explore desolate stretches of the Great Wall and endure interrogation by the Chinese police. As they walk on through the heart of China, the exuberant hospitality of cave dwellers, coal miners and desert nomads keeps them going, despite sub-zero blizzards and the treacherous terrain. Rob writes with humour and honesty about the hardships of the walk, reflecting on the nature of pilgrimage and the uncertainties of an adventuring career. He also gives a unique insight into life on the road amid the epic landscapes and rapidly industrialising cities of backwater China.
Author : Molly Aloian
Publisher : Deserts Around the World
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-24
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0778707105
This intriguing book describes the geological makeup and history of the Gobi Desert in Mongolia and China. Readers will learn about the variety of habitats in this vast desert system that support many different kinds of plants and animals such as camels, snow leopards, and bears. The Gobi Desert is also where the first dinosaur egg fossils were found.
Author : Stefan Danis
Publisher : BPS Books
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781926645841
In the midst of a devastating year for his and most businesses, Stefan Danis searched for a challenge that would get him in physical and mental shape for what lay ahead, inspire others in similar situations, and raise funds for those in his industry who had fallen on even harder times. With only a vague understanding of what he was getting himself into, he settled on the Gobi March, an unaided 250-kilometer foot race in the Gobi Desert of China. Now, in this captivating story of mind over matter, he shares how he overcame the challenges he faced -- from extensive training to injuries that nearly kept him from the race to running in blazing heat on stones, sand, through rivers, and even up mountains -- and made it to the finish line, stronger and better equipped for what lay ahead.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2003-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 817020710X
Author : John Hare
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2008-12-08
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780857736451
John Hare is a star author and one of the most well-known explorers of his generation. The Gobi is a perennially fascinating part of the world - a desert that people love to read about. China, the environment/natural world, exploration and discovery: broad and topical appeal.The Gobi is the largest, coldest and driest desert in Asia. Its shifting sands conceal ancient cities, 3,000-year-old mummies, dinosaur bones and areas where no man has set foot. It is also the last place on earth where the wild Bactrian camel clings to survival, its fragile habitat threatened by poachers and development. With the conservation of this elusive creature in mind, John Hare was inspired to venture into the wildest parts of the Chinese Gobi on an expedition during which they crossed a hundred miles of sand dunes, unexplored in recorded history. Several weeks into the journey, Hare and the team discovered, in two unmapped valleys, a population of wildlife with no experience of man.Interwoven with the account of his remarkable journey, Hare tells, for the first time, the story of an epic migration made by Kazakh nomads in flight from Chinese communists and describes the historic and current tensions between the Chinese and the indigenous Uighur population of Xinjiang. A blend of history and high adventure, discovery and conservation, "Mysteries of the Gobi" is a unique and compelling account of modern-day exploration.
Author : Helen Thayer
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Gobi Desert (Mongolia and China)
ISBN : 9781442967977
In 2001, at the age of sixty-three, renowned adventurer Helen Thayer fulfilled her lifelong dream of crossing Mongolia's Gobi Desert. Accompanied by her seventy-four-year-old husband, Bill, and two camels, Tom and Jerry, Thayer walked 1600 miles in 126-degree temperatures, encountering fierce sandstorms, dehydration, dangerous drug smugglers, and ubiquitous scorpions. For more than sixty days Helen struggled to keep moving through some of the most inhospitable terrain on Earth, despite a severe leg injury. Without sponsors, a support team, or radio contact, hers is a journey of pure discovery and adventure. Walking the Gobi takes readers on a trip through a little-known landscape and introduces them to the culture of the nomadic people whose ancestors have eked out an existence in the Gobi for thousands of years. Thayer's respect and admiration for the culture of the Gobi and her gentle weaving in of natural history shine throughout this remarkable story.