In the first of three excerpts from her powerful new book, The Idealist: Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty, Nina Munk takes us to a one of the most inhospitable places on earth, a remote village on the border of Somalia and Kenya where each day is a struggle to overcome hunger, drought, and disease.
From its peak, they saw ahead of them a dry, barren plain, perfectly flat and covered with white salt, larger than the one they had just crossed, and "one of the most inhospitable places on earth" according to Rarick.
Even as she is being marched in chains through the Amazon jungle, one of the most inhospitable places on earth, the harsh beauty of her surroundings moves her to poetry.
Exactly what happened in the desert territory remains in dispute between the Saharan independence movement, Polisario, and the Moroccan government, fighting for the past 35 years over one of the most inhospitable places on Earth.
The place gives off the exciting palpitation of death, and one cannot help admiring Madam Becket and Mr. Willett, and the lives they have made in one of the most inhospitable places on earth.
A seasoned chronicler of the former Soviet Union journeys alone to Russia's vast, desolate northern plains, dropping by former labor camps, abandoned laboratories and other outposts that dot one of the most inhospitable places on earth.
Such small extremities, along with his brown eyes, olive skin and naturally low heart rate, make him ideally suited to a life of spending months at a time alone or responsible for teams of amateurs in one of the most inhospitable environments on earth.
Transport Correspondent Richard Westcott reports on the technology being used to try and solve the mystery in one of the most inhospitable places on earth.
There, in one of the most inhospitable environments on Earth, fan-turned-co-writer McCarthy found himself among the film's menagerie of strange vehicles.
The lake's location in the heart of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet makes it one of the most inhospitable environments on the planet.
