Publishers Weekly, August 16th, 1999
John Man. Yale Univ., $24.95 (232p) ISBN 0-300-07609-6
British reporter Man has been obsessed with Mongolia's Gobi Desert since his boyhood, when he read of the exploits of American explorer/scientist Roy Chapman Andrews, who in 1922-1924 made one of the century's great paleontological finds by discovering dinosaur eggs and fossils at Flaming Cliffs (aka Bayan Zag). In an exhilarating blend of travel, history and adventure, the Gobi of Man's imagination--all flat immensities and deathly extremes--gives way to a realm of austere beauty, with majestic snow-capped pinnacles, emerald oases, an ...
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