Most people think of deserts as sweltering expanses of sand ... desert. The Gobi Desert is often nicknamed a “cold desert” precisely because of these severe cold snaps and the presence of snow ...

Evidence of this biologically rich era can be found across the planet, particularly in the Nemegt Basin of the Mongolian Gobi ...

IN this volume, the narrative of the Sino-Swedish expedition to the Gobi Desert, which was at work continuously from 1927 until 1933, carries the story on for a further period of two years.

Gearing up: For a project to photograph the world’s extreme deserts, I wanted to visit the giant sand dunes in China’s Inner Mongolia. The only way into the Gobi is on foot or by camel.