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Tales from the Wild, Wild Gobi: Intrepid Women and Adventurers Beyond the Great Wall

	Tales From The Wild, Wild Gobi: Intrepid Women And Adventurers Beyond The Great Wall by Brian D. Mccredie
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The Gobi Desert …
A wild and desolate wasteland – where no man dared to venture.

Mildred Cable, Eva and Francesca French set off into this wilderness during one of China`s greatest periods of upheaval. The backdrop to the world of these three Englishwomen was the destruction of the old and the forging of a new China.

They went as missionaries, with high-flown dreams to fulfil on behalf of the Church. The other wanderers they encountered there – explorers, archaeologists, soldiers-of-fortune, eccentrics of every hue – had also been enticed into that most mysterious of deserts, but seduced by different visions. Without exception, they shared a common fate: they all became the reluctant victims of a bloody war waged up and down the desert and beyond by a youthful warlord who dreamed dreams that rivalled those of Genghis Khan… ISBN 8187981997

Pages : 226