num_pages: 374
description: Covering the vast miles between the ruined caravan cities of Turmenia to the beautiful and treacherous Pamir and Tien Shan mountains, a portrait of China explores its oppressed past, recent liberation, and hopeful future. National ad/promo.
language: English
title: The Lost Heart of Asia
titlecomplete: The Lost Heart of Asia
genres: Geography, Asia, Adventure, Nature, Environment, Nonfiction, Kazakhstan, Travel, Russia, History
ratings_count: 1455
awards: awardedAt: 1325404800000
name: Ryszard Kapuściński Prize
publisher: HarperCollins