Τhe lost heart of Asia /
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 encoun...
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| Μορφή: | Βιβλίο |
| Γλώσσα: | English |
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London :
Heinemann,
c1994.
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| Περίληψη: | 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. |
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| Περιγραφή τεκμηρίου: | Περιλαμβάνει ευρετήριο. |
| Φυσική περιγραφή: | vii, 374 σ. : χάρτες ; 24 εκ. |
| ISBN: | 0434779768 9780434779765 |
