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The Gobi Desert
A wild and desolate wasteland where no man
dared to venture.
Mildred Cable, Eva and Francesca French set
off into this wilderness during one of China's
greatest periods of upheaval. The backdrop to
the world of these three Englishwomen was the
destruction of the old and the forging of a new
China.
They went as missionaries, with high-flown
dreams to fulfil on behalf of the Church. The
other wanderers they encountered there
explorers, archaeologists, soldiers-of-fortune,
eccentrics of every hue had also been enticed
into that most mysterious of deserts, but
seduced by different visions. Without exception,
they shared a common fate: they all became the
reluctant victims of a bloody war waged up and
down the desert and beyond by a youthful warlord
who dreamed dreams that rivalled those of
Genghis Khan
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