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The Gobi Desert (1942) China: Her Life and Her People (1946) The Book which Demands a Verdict (1946) The Story of Topsy; Little Lonely of Central Asia (1947) The Bible in Mission Lands, Fleming H. Revell Co. (1947) The Bible in the World, London: Bible Reading Fellowship (1947) George Hunter Apostle of Turkestan (1948) Grace, Child of the Gobi ...
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The animal was the basis of a short story, Olgoi-Khorkhoi (1944), by Russian paleontologist and science fiction writer Ivan Yefremov, written under the impression of Andrews's book. In 1946–49 Yefremov was studying fossils in the Gobi desert and wrote that he heard the legend of olgoi-khorkhoi many times, but nobody claimed to have seen it.
In a ghost-written book called The Long Walk, he claimed that in 1941 he and six others had escaped from a Siberian Gulag camp and begun a long journey south on foot (about 6,500 km or 4,000 mi), supposedly travelling through the Gobi Desert, Tibet, and the Himalayas before finally reaching British India in the winter of 1942.
Five times we traversed the whole length of the desert, and in the process we had become part of its life" [6] A reviewer said of Cable and Francesca French's book, The Gobi Desert, that "this may be the best of many good books about Central Asia and the old Silk Road through the deserts of Western China." [7]