The Last Secrets of the Silk Road: Four Girls Follow Marco Polo Across 5, 000 Miles
Author(s): Alexandra Tolstoy
Four girls follow Marco Polo over 5,000 miles with horse and camel. A unique eight-month, 5,000-mile journey by horse and camel across Central Asia through some of the least known and most beautiful regions of the world, plains and orchards, mountains and desert, to the terminus city of Xian in China. This book by one of the riders tells the story of that extraordinary journey.
Product Information
Alexandra Tolstoy is at present establishing a travel company which will organise riding, trekking and mountaineering tours in Central Asia. The daughter of the historian Nikolai Tolstoy, she is a distant cousin of the famous novelist Count Leo.
General Fields
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- : Profile Books Ltd
- : Profile Books Ltd
- : 0.17
- : 01 March 2004
- : 198mm X 130mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : Alexandra Tolstoy
- : Paperback
- : 915.80443
- : 224
- : illustrations