Marching Sands
Harold Lamb
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Sinopsis
A long-lost city of medieval origin, ‘Sungan’, lies in the trackless waste of the Gobi desert. It harbours the ‘Wusan’, descendants of white crusaders.
Editorial: Alien Ebooks
A long-lost city of medieval origin, ‘Sungan’, lies in the trackless waste of the Gobi desert. It harbours the ‘Wusan’, descendants of white crusaders.
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