THE LOST HEART OF ASIA.
por Thubron, Colin
- Usado
- Capa dura
- first
- Condição
- Near fine in a very near fine dust jacket (toning to the pages)./very near fine
- ISBN 10
- 0434779768
- ISBN 13
- 9780434779765
- Livreiro
-
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London:: William Heinemann,, (1994). Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in a very near fine dust jacket (toning to the pages).. First printing. A book on the newly-emergent countries of central Asia which contain the magical cities of Bukhara and Samarkand, the Kazakh Steppes, the deserts of Karakum and the Pamir Mountains. The five Central Asian republics - the five "Stans": Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan - cut loose from Moscow in the fall oft the Soviet Union, discover that their newly found freedom plays tug-o-war with despair and a nostalgia for the certainties of the Soviet past. "Thubron finds the heart of Asia in the hearts of its people, swimming in a sea of tea, vodka, and hospitality. From the oldest-known Quran to a deserted Soviet naval base on the shores of a high mountain lake 1,500 miles from the ocean (used to test torpedoes far from spying eyes), [his] writing echoes the melancholy emptiness of the wide spaces he passes through. . . a rare meeting of a marvelous writer and a mysterious land.(Ken Peavler) Maps. Index. 374 pp. Map endpapers.
Sinopse
Colin Thubron’s most recent travel book is To the Last City . Behind the Wall won the Hawthornden Prize and the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award.
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- Livreiro
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- Nº do estoque do livreiro
- 86416
- Título
- THE LOST HEART OF ASIA.
- Autor
- Thubron, Colin
- Formato/Encadernação
- Hardcover first edition -
- Estado do livro
- Usado - Near fine in a very near fine dust jacket (toning to the pages).
- Condição de sobrecapa
- very near fine
- Encadernação
- Capa dura
- ISBN 10
- 0434779768
- ISBN 13
- 9780434779765
- Editorial
- William Heinemann,
- Local de publicação
- London:
- Data de publicação
- (1994)
- Palavras-chave
- Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan, silk road,
- Catálogos de livreiros
- Central Asia and the Middle East;
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