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 ...

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.

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

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.