Word: taklamakan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trip to Kashgar and back along the edge of the Taklamakan Desert was one of the great experiences of our lives. We followed a route as old as history itself: Marco Polo passed over it, Tamerlane sacked it, the Chinese built watchtowers to guard it. The ruins are still there, and even the caravans are the same. We photographed everything- sipped tea and ate melons with all the little officials who came out to meet us -got our story by putting together a hundred fragments that told us what their lives had been...