A Ride To Khiva
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Author | : Chris Aslan |
Publisher | : Icon Books Ltd |
Total Pages | : 333 |
Release | : 2010-07-01 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 1848312717 |
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The Silk Road conjures images of the exotic and the unknown. Most travellers simply pass along it. Brit Chris Alexander chose to live there. Ostensibly writing a guidebook, Alexander found life at the heart of the glittering madrassahs, mosques and minarets of the walled city of Khiva - a remote desert oasis in Uzbekistan - immensely alluring, and stayed. Immersing himself in the language and rich cultural traditions Alexander discovers a world torn between Marx and Mohammed - a place where veils and vodka, pork and polygamy freely mingle - against a backdrop of forgotten carpet designs, crumbling but magnificent Islamic architecture and scenes drawn straight from "The Arabian Nights". Accompanied by a large green parrot, a ginger cat and his adoptive Uzbek family, Alexander recounts his efforts to rediscover the lost art of traditional weaving and dyeing, and the process establishing a self-sufficient carpet workshop, employing local women and disabled people to train as apprentices. A Carpet Ride to Khiva sees Alexander being stripped naked at a former Soviet youth camp, crawling through silkworm droppings in an attempt to record their life-cycle, holed up in the British Museum discovering carpet designs dormant for half a millennia, tackling a carpet-thieving mayor, distinguishing natural dyes from sacks of opium in Northern Afghanistan, bluffing his way through an impromptu version of "My Heart Will Go On" for national Uzbek TV and seeking sanctuary as an anti-Western riot consumed the Kabul carpet bazaar. It is an unforgettable true travel story of a journey to the heart of the unknown and the unexpected friendship one man found there.
Author | : Frederick Gustavus Burnaby |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 570 |
Release | : 1877 |
Genre | : Asia, Central |
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Author | : Fred Burnaby |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 1876 |
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Author | : Frederick Burnaby |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2017-04-06 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 1365876918 |
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It is 1875, the time of the 'Great Game', when the British and Russian Empires are vying for power in central Asia. Great Britain learns of Russia's plans to annex India, the 'jewel in the crown' of the Empire. A British officer rides for Khiva, a Russian city closed to European travelers. He is on a dangerous mission, to learn if this remote and dangerous oasis is about to be used as a springboard for the Russian invasion of India. Captain Frederick Burnaby ballooned across the English Channel, traveled in Spain and Russia, and was wounded, and eventually killed, fighting for Britain's empire. This account of his perilous journey to Khiva, published in 1876 and immediately reprinted, brought him instant fame.
Author | : sir Francis Cowley Burnand |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 1877 |
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Author | : Frederick Gustavus Burnaby |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 526 |
Release | : 1877 |
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Author | : Fred Burnaby |
Publisher | : London ; Paris : C. Petter & Galpin |
Total Pages | : 420 |
Release | : 1877 |
Genre | : Asia, Central |
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Author | : Fred Burnaby |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 398 |
Release | : 1986 |
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Author | : Frederick Gustavus Burnaby |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 398 |
Release | : 1882 |
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Author | : Jefferson Robert L |
Publisher | : Franklin Classics Trade Press |
Total Pages | : 390 |
Release | : 2018-11-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780353400771 |
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