Tracing Marco Polo's journey : [Book] : the Silk Route / H.P.S. Ahluwalia ; editors, Navkala Roy and Ritu Khanna.

One day, I will explore this region,??? decided Major H.P Ahluwalia, .S. as he stood on the summit of Mount Everest on 29 May 1965. For him, ???It was a moment of complete joy. It was freezing, perhaps thirty degrees below zero, but suddenly the wind dropped and I thought this was a special gift from mother goddess.??? This was when his dream project???to explore the Tibetan plateau and the mysterious land of Central Asia beyond???was born. Tracing Marco Polo???s Journey: The Silk Route takes the reader on a fascinating adventure, following Major Ahluwalia and his team members through the exciting expedition of 1994. It is a vivid account of a diverse, adventurous trip through cities as exotic as Bukhara, Samarkand, Andhijan, Xian, Yarkand, Kashgar and Lhasa; lush oases such as Hotan and Turfan; the grand Gobi and Taklamakan Deserts; ancient monuments and mosques; winding up finally at the monasteries in the magnificent Himalayas. It is a first-hand account of a two-month trip marked with both, challenges and fun. The accompanying photographs bring the story alive.

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