Τhe lost heart of Asia /
Thubron, Colin 1939-
Τhe lost heart of Asia / Colin Thubron. - London : Heinemann, c1994. - vii, 374 σ. : χάρτες ; 24 εκ.
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Turkmenistan -- The Desert of Merv -- Bukhara -- Lost identities -- The Khorezmian solitude -- Samarkand -- To the White Palace -- Tashkent; into the valley -- The high Pamirs -- Steppelands -- The mountains of heaven.
An account of an enormous land, as big as Western Europe, heart of the great Mongol Empire of Tamerlane, route of the silk roads and scene of Stalin's most devilish deportations.This is a travel book on the newly emergent countries of central Asia. It is the story of Colin Thubron's encounters with the people, landscape and past, and his search into the region's fragmented identity and the crisis of the many once-dominant Russians who remain.
0434779768 9780434779765
Ασία, Κεντρική--Περιγραφή και ταξίδια.
910.958
Τhe lost heart of Asia / Colin Thubron. - London : Heinemann, c1994. - vii, 374 σ. : χάρτες ; 24 εκ.
Περιλαμβάνει ευρετήριο.
Turkmenistan -- The Desert of Merv -- Bukhara -- Lost identities -- The Khorezmian solitude -- Samarkand -- To the White Palace -- Tashkent; into the valley -- The high Pamirs -- Steppelands -- The mountains of heaven.
An account of an enormous land, as big as Western Europe, heart of the great Mongol Empire of Tamerlane, route of the silk roads and scene of Stalin's most devilish deportations.This is a travel book on the newly emergent countries of central Asia. It is the story of Colin Thubron's encounters with the people, landscape and past, and his search into the region's fragmented identity and the crisis of the many once-dominant Russians who remain.
0434779768 9780434779765
Ασία, Κεντρική--Περιγραφή και ταξίδια.
910.958
