Going to Extremes: Mud, Sweat and Frozen Tears
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Book Description
Once more overturning the stereotype of the stay–at–home academic, Oxford geography don Nick Middleton—author of Last Disco in Outer Mongolia, Travels with a Brussels Scout, and Ice Tea with Elvis—journeys to the hottest, coldest, wettest, and driest places on earth.
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In Going to Extremes, Nick Middleton, a travel writer with a penchant for some of the more bizarre outposts of human habitation, ventures to the hottest, driest, coldest, and wettest inhabited places on Earth. He wants to know not only how people manage to live in these places, but also why they settled there in the first place. And, most intriguing of all—why they stay. He follows Stalin’s “Road of Bones” across Siberia’s icy wilderness to the world’s coldest town, then crosses the world’s oldest desert, the Atacama, to visit its driest. He descends into the cauldron of the Danakil Depression to suffer the searing intensity of an Ethiopian summer, then wades through the Indian monsoon to reach the world’s rainiest hills. Whether he’s risking castration in “the hell hole of creation” or facing the trauma of giant vampire slugs, Nick Middleton’s account of his journey to the edge is never less than fascinating.
Going to Extremes: Mud, Sweat and Frozen Tears,Nick Middleton,Pan Books,0330493841,Discovery And Exploration (General),Earth Sciences - Geography,Essays & Travelogues,Physical Geography,Science,Science/Mathematics,Travel,Travel - Foreign
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