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Books in Brief
April 17, 1929 issue

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The article discusses several books, "Desert Road to Turkestan," by Owen Lattimore, "Mary, Queen of Scots," by Margarete Kurlbaum-Siebert, and "Music at Midnight," by Muriel Draper. According to Lattimore, there is a No Man's Land in the heart of Asia, where men still live as they lived in adventurer drivers on the great trans-desert highways. Lattimore, a twenty-six-year-old Chinese-speaking American, in 1926-1927 made the long camel journey from Kuei-hua in Northwest China to Ku Cheng-tze and Uruinchi in Turkestan, following a road through the dunes and deserts revived in the last decade of civil war when the older and better marked routes became unsafe.

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BOOKS; DESERT Road to Turkestan (Book); MARY, Queen of Scots (Book); MUSIC at Midnight (Book); LATTIMORE, Owen; KURLBAUM-Siebert, Margarete; DRAPER, Muriel
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