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| | Extremes along the Silk Road - Trafalgar Square (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | Nick Middleton—geographer, travel writer, and Oxford don—pits himself against the punishing extremes of the fabled route that links East and West. |
 | | A vast region separating China from the Mediterranean, it is one of the most inhospitable places on earth—a forbidding terrain of hostile deserts, treacherous mountain ranges, howling winds, searing heat, and blistering cold. |
 | | No stranger to unforgiving territory, Nick Middleton follows in the footsteps of Alexander the Great and Marco Polo, overland from China to Istanbul, surviving, as they did, the life-sapping Gobi Desert, the icy mountain passes of Tibet, and the daunting Steppes of Turkmenistan. |
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