SILK ROAD -NICK MIDDLETON - CK
SILK ROAD -NICK MIDDLETON TITLE - This chapter is an excerpt from the book Extremes Along the Silk Road, describing the author’s journey along the ancient trade route called Silk Road. Nick Middleton, geographer, travel writer, and Oxford don (teacher) writes about his travel through the extremes of the fabled route that links the East and the West. The Silk Road cuts through one of the most extraordinary landscapes on the planet. A vast region separating China from the Mediterranean, it is one of the most inhospitable places on earth, a forbidding terrain of hostile deserts, treacherous mountain ranges, howling winds, searing heat, and blistering cold. This account of the Silk Road, with contrast and exotic detail, describes the challenges and hardships the author faced while journeying to Mount Kailash on his attempt to do ‘the Kora’- a Buddhist religious practice. It’s a travelogue describing the author’s journey from Ravu to Mount Kailash to do Kora (Buddhist spiritual ...