Asian Geographic – Special Edition 2017-2018

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02 SHANGRI LA Along the pilgrimage route to Lhasa, faithful Buddhists prostrate themselves in an elaborate exercise over hundred ...

07 SILK ROAD (IRAN) Along the road from Kerman to Hormuz, which was a bustling port, Marco Polo was impressed by the “many natur ...

< “Travelling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller” Ibn Battuta < < TO SPAIN FROM MOROCCO ASIA ...

Voyages of Discovery TRACE SOME OF THE ROUTES OF INFLUENTIAL GEOGRAPHIC PIONEERS < AUSTRALIA Sea of Japan (East Sea) East Chi ...

REVEALED The wind has been howling across the Gobi Desert for weeks, day and night, in all directions. Huddled in her tent, Sara ...

Before a walk, Marquis piles on weight, and trains to carry 30 kilograms. The preparation is also psychological, she shares. “By ...

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In September every year, the tusk hunters who have spent several months scattered on the various islands of the archipelago, gat ...

Amongst a bed of thick, pitch-black seaweed, Pavel Nikolskiy, a palaeontologist and senior researcher at the Moscow Geological I ...

Their mission is guided by a set of questions: Why – and how – did the mammoth disappear some 10,000 years ago? left The strait ...

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When the tusk hunters find other mammoth products, like hair or skeletons, they notify the palaeontology teams, since there’s no ...

Below Ivo Verheijen, a Dutch student who joined the team, draws the details of a jawbone belonging to a Pleistocene wolverine (G ...

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the legacy of the woolly mammoth RELATIONSHIP TO THE MODERN ELEPHANT Woolly mammoths are closely related to today’s Asian eleph ...