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Gobi Desert   /gˈoʊbi dˈɛzərt/   Listen
Gobi Desert

noun
1.
A desert in central China.  Synonym: Gobi.






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"Gobi Desert" Quotes from Famous Books



... until 1860. From Khotan they pushed on to the vicinity of Lake Lob, never to be reached again until a Russian explorer got there in 1871. They halted there to load asses and camels with provisions, and then, with sinking hearts, they began the terrible thirty days' journey across the Gobi Desert. Marco gives a vivid description of its terrors, voices which seem to call the traveller by name, the march of phantom cavalcades, which lures them off the road at night, spirits which fill the air with sounds of music, drums and gongs and the clash of arms—all those illusions which ...
— Medieval People • Eileen Edna Power



Words linked to "Gobi Desert" :   People's Republic of China, desert, Cathay, Communist China, PRC, Red China, Mongolia, Outer Mongolia, china, mainland China, Mongolian People's Republic



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