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Author:

Marquis, Sarah, 1972-

Title:

Wild by nature : from Siberia to Australia, three years alone in the wilderness on foot / Sarah Marquis.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press ,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

259 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Marquis, Sarah,--1972---Travel.
Wilderness survival.
Hiking.

Contents:

Introduction -- Chapter 1: Preparation -- Chapter 2: Mongolia, my beginning -- Chapter 3: Central Mongolia -- Chapter 4: Gobi Desert -- Chapter 5: Gobi Desert - second attempt -- Chapter 6: China -- Chapter 7: Gobi Desert - third attempt -- Chapter 8: Siberia -- Chapter 9: Laos -- Chapter 10: Thailand -- Chapter 11: Northern Australia -- Chapter 12: Southern Australia.

Summary:

Using her wits and skills as a hunter to get by, the author describes her solo ten-thousand-mile trek across the Gobi Desert where she encountered mafiosos, drug dealers, thieves on horseback, temperature extremes, dehydration, and illness.

ISBN:

1250081971 (hardcover)
9781250081971 (hardcover)

LCCN:

2015039458

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