The Marching Wind

Clark, Leonard

ISBN 10: 1590480600 / ISBN 13: 9781590480601

Published by Long Riders' Guild, Topeka, 1996

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SUBTITLED : `A Mounted Explorer Rides into Forbidden Tibet ' . Hard on his experiences in WWII as an espionage agent, Leonard Clark in 1949, decided to lead a group to prepare a base of operation for General Ma Pa-fang, an anti-communist leader. These 370 pages - INDEX at back - tell that story. LEARN more about : China's Sorrow, Minchur Tsewan Dorje, Tou Long Ra, Amne Machin, Gitong River, and Gomtsun. Two b/w maps aqhead of page 3. Section of b/w photos at center. Cond : Paper wrapper is lemon yellow with black lettering. Bright, tight, square and clean. No names nor marks. Giftable !! Quote (p. 93) : " Hectic, busy preparations for our venture continued. Our spirits had improved. Copper cooking pots were purchased. Tsamba, the main food other than meat, for we had no foreign food of any kind except Chinese tea, was brought in on horses and put into leather bags. these tough bags would ._._._. ." Size: 8vo.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Marching Wind
• Publisher: Long Riders' Guild, Topeka
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1590480600
• ISBN 13: 9781590480601
• Binding: Soft cover
• Illustrator: B/W Photographs
• Edition: First Thus.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • History - World

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Synopsis

Leonard Clark was a lifelong enemy of fear, common sense, and all the other elements that usually define "normal" people. During The Second World War he headed the United States espionage system in China. When that global conflict came to a peaceful conclusion, Clark turned his relentless energy towards exploring the most dangerous and inaccessible places on the globe. Case in point was his decision to lead a mounted expedition of Torgut tribesmen into Tibet! The official reason for Clark's decision to "invade" this mountainous kingdom on horseback in 1949 was his decision to prepare an impregnable base for General Ma Pa-fang, a violently anti-communist Moslem general. Yet romantic adventure ran deep in Clark, which helps to explain why he was journeying through one of the world's least known and most forbidding regions in the center of Asia. He was also eager to find and measure a mysterious mountain in the Amne Machin range rumored to be higher than Mount Everest. The only problem was that the sacred mountain was guarded by the fearsome Ngolok tribesmen. "The Marching Wind" is the panoramic story of Clark's mounted exploration in the remote and savage heart of Asia, a place where adventure, danger, and intrigue were the daily backdrop to wild tribesman and equestrian exploits. Amply illustrated with Clark's photographs, as well as maps he drew in Tibet, this rediscovered classic was originally published soon before the author's death from injuries he received while exploring the Amazon rainforest.