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Christopher Alexander

A Carpet Ride to Khiva

Seven Years on the Silk Road

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A unique, beautiful and moving account of seven years living in the remote Uzbek desertThe Silk Road conjures images of the exotic and the unknown. Most travellers simply pass along it. Brit Chris Alexander chose to live there. Immersing himself in the language and rich cultural traditions of Khiva, a remote desert oasis in Uzbekistan, 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 gin… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-84831-149-7
  • EAN: 9781848311497
  • Produktnummer: 18308287
  • Verlag: Icon Books Ltd
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
  • Seitenangabe: 320 S.
  • Masse: H19.6 cm x B13.0 cm x D3.0 cm 299 g
  • Abbildungen: Illustrations, unspecified
  • Gewicht: 299

Über den Autor


Christopher Aslan Alexander was born in Turkey and grew up in war-torn Beirut. After university he moved to Central Asia. While writing a guidebook about Khiva, he fell in love with this desert oasis boasting the most homogenous example of Islamic architecture in the world, and stayed.

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