Τhe lost heart of Asia /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Thubron, Colin, 1939- (συγγραφέας.)
• Μορφή: Βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: London : Heinemann, c1994.
• Θέματα: Ασία, Κεντρική > Περιγραφή και ταξίδια.

 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.  

 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.