Winds of the Steppe: Walking the Great Silk Road from Central Asia to China By Bernard Ollivier,Dan Golembeski

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Bernard Ollivier pushes onward in his attempt to become the first person to walk the entire length of the Great Silk Road. “A gripping account. More than just a travel story—this is a quest for the Other.”—Alexis Liebaert, L’Événement Picking up where Walking to Samarkand left off, Winds of the Steppe continues the astonishing tale of journalist Bernard Ollivier’s 7,200-mile walk from Turkey to China along the Silk Road, the longest and most mythical trade route of all time. Taking readers from the snows of the Pamir Mountains to the backstreets of Kashgar—a Central Asian city that could be the setting for One Thousand and One Nights—to the Tian Shan Mountains to the endless Taklamakan and Gobi Deserts of China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, Bernard Ollivier continues his epic foot journey along the Great Silk Road hoping to make his way to Han China and reach, at long last, the legendary city of Xi’an. After traveling through a region dotted with former Buddhist shrines, Ollivier finds himself craving the warm welcome of Islamic lands, where, regardless of their culture or nationality, travelers are often treated as esteemed guests. Beyond the occasional vestige of the old Silk Road, Ollivier comes face to face with sites of religious significance, China’s Great Wall, and of course thousands of everyday people along the way. As Ollivier tries to make sense of his journey and find connections between these people’s daily lives and the so-called “modern” world, he does so with a sense of humility that transforms his personal journey into a universal quest.

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I bought Winds on the Steppe at a discount without concern of its place at the end of a three-book journey--you can certainly read each one on it's own but I'm glad to have read them in order after some consideration. At the beginning of his trip--entirely on foot unless an international border dictates otherwise--Mr Ollivier is 61, newly-retired, still grieving over the loss of his wife, and was inspired by his walk on the Camino de Santiago to travel the Silk Road. He's not ready to surrender his mind or body to being just another retired person and throughout the three books learns to cope with bad footwear, inhospitable weather, potential robbers, sullen border guards, and bad maps while experiencing kindness and hospitalities unimaginable in France. Well, the hospitalities are more pronounced in the first two books.Winds on the Steppe was the hardest to read with the harshest desert conditions and some truly sad ideas of "hotels" or shelter coupled with a loneliness brought on by his decision to forego learning Cantonese or Mandarin (unlike his attempts to learn some Turkish or Farsi in the two earlier books); he addresses his loneliness by conjuring up the character Rosa and a novel about her. I especially loved his random meeting with a Tibetan monk traveling in the opposite direction and the sweet connection they made as two wanderers in the middle of nowhere. And I had no idea I could be so curious about Kyrgyzstan or Uhygurs.To say I'm grateful for these books, and inspired by the tenacity of an individual to commit to a four-year odyssey, is an understatement as I feel richer just by taking the arm chair journey with Mr Ollivier.

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