She resumed her travels in China, near the Yangtze River. But an abscessed tooth forced her to delay her journey across the Gobi, which she crossed in 2011. Consciously pushing her body to the limit, Marquis endured scorching temperatures by day and subzero temperatures by night and managed to avoid becoming ill in a place that threatened her health with everything from diphtheria to the plague. The dusty, wind-swept terrain was as beautiful as it was harsh, and its inhabitants and animals did not always welcome her presence. She began in Mongolia near the Siberian border, intending to work her way south to the Gobi Desert. Marquis undertook her six-country walkabout in June 2010, two years after she began to experience the “sublime sensation” of restlessness that told her it was time to depart her native Switzerland for another adventure. A National Geographic explorer’s account of the three years she spent trekking alone through wild and sparsely populated regions in Mongolia, China, Siberia, and Australia.
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