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Ms. VEIRS: Yeah, if you dont use them, they go and so at that point, I was a geology major, and I decided it would be cool for my senior project to put my interests of Chinese and geology together into one project and go over to learn about geology and field assist in the Taklamakan Desert, which is in the northwest part of China.
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The Taklamakan Desert is a large sandy desert, part of the Tarim Basin, a region roughly between Tibet and Mongolia, in Western China, and crossed at its northern and southern edge by the Silk Road.
Latest Articles 2009
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Mr. Bessac endured privations and severe weather during which he traversed the Taklamakan Desert, known as "White Death."
An Odyssey Through Wartime China Stephen Miller 2010
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A worker checks pipes at PetroChina's Tarim Oilfield in Taklamakan Desert in China's western Xinjiang region last year.
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NY Times:A thousand years ago, the northern and southern branches of the Silk Road converged at this oasis town near the western edge of the Taklamakan Desert.
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NY Times:A thousand years ago, the northern and southern branches of the Silk Road converged at this oasis town near the western edge of the Taklamakan Desert.
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Above, a worker checks pipes at PetroChina's Tarim oil field in Taklamakan Desert, in western China, last month.
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A former successful Wall Street investment banker from Brooklyn turned travel and adventure writer, Antonio has authored numerous books, including about his adventures bicycling around Taiwan, bicycling across the Taklamakan Desert in China, and his time studying with the monks at the famous Shaolin Temple.
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It didn't compare to crossing the Taklamakan Desert by rickshaw, for example.
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The communities are Aksu, Kuqa and Korla, indicated by red dots on the map below, on the northern edge of the Taklamakan Desert in Western China.
John Tepper Marlin: Green Edge 5: Farm Aid in Islamic China 2008
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"Travel was painfully slow. In 1993 a British officer and explorer named Charles Blackmore led an expedition on foot through the Taklamakan. His men and camels managed to cover 780 miles (1,400 km) across the Taklamakan between Loulan and Merket, southwest of Kashgar, in fifty-nine days, averaging just over 13 miles (21 km) a day. Walking over the dunes in the sandy part of the desert was strenuous, and they did not always make ten miles (16 km) in a day, but walking on the flat pebbled surface, they reached as much as 15 miles (24 km) per day. These rates give a good approximation of what travelers in previous centuries endured."
--Valerie Hansen, The Silk Road: A New History (Oxford and New York: Oxford UP, 2012), 9-10
December 30, 2016