Edge of blue heaven Book

Lots of colour photos throughout as explorer Benedict Allen undertakes a journey through W Mongolia and lastly a solitary) crossing of the Gobi Desert.
Much of the narrative concerns the various horses and camels which undertake bits of the journey with them- their personalities and frailties. Camels seem a moody breed; recalcitrant animals prone to vomiting bile or striking off alone and abandoning their 'master'. Allen also notes how they seem to get depressed and 'cry'when taken away from home.
Allen write, too, of the overwhelming scenery and animals; he meets locals and embraces the local diet: "Those innards which I discreetly left aside now, will be saved up for me for breakfast- warmed up in tea." And observes a somewhat changing society as the younger generation adopt western ways: "While he was dismembering a sheep, his son was dismembering his jeep." And through it all, the bleakness, the brutality and the beauty- and the ever-present recollection of Genghis Khan's empire.
Gives a good feel of the country