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Book Synopsis Journey to Khiva by : Philip Glazebrook
Download or read book Journey to Khiva written by Philip Glazebrook and published by Kodansha Amer Incorporated. This book was released on 1996-06-15 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author describes his travels to the fabled cities of Tashkent, Bokhara, Samarkand, and Khiva
Book Synopsis A Carpet Ride to Khiva by : Chris Aslan
Download or read book A Carpet Ride to Khiva written by Chris Aslan and published by Icon Books Ltd. This book was released on 2010-07-01 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Pilgrims on the Silk Road by : Walter R. Ratliff
Download or read book Pilgrims on the Silk Road written by Walter R. Ratliff and published by Walter Ratliff. This book was released on 2010 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Synopsis: They were seeking religious freedom and the Second Coming of Christ in Central Asia. They found themselves in the care of a Muslim king. During the 1880s, Mennonites from Russia made a treacherous journey to the Silk Road kingdom of Khiva. Both Uzbek and Mennonite history seemed to set the stage for ongoing religious and ethnic discord. Yet their story became an example of friendship and cooperation between Muslims and Christians. Pilgrims on the Silk Road challenges conventional wisdom about the trek to Central Asia and the settlement of Ak Metchet. It shows how the story, long associated with failed End Times prophecies, is being recast in light of new evidence. Pilgrims highlights the role of Ak Metchet as a refuge for those fleeing Soviet oppression, and the continuing influence of the episode more than twelve decades later. Endorsements: "Walter Ratliff's history of the Mennonite Great Trek to Central Asia offers a new angle of vision upon one of the most remarkable events of Mennonite history. Pilgrims on the Silk Road puts the Great Trek into the context of nineteenth-century imperial rivalry and of the Russian conquest of Khiva. The author tells tales of Muslim-Christian cooperation that resonate with meaning in our twenty-first century of religious polarization. Ratliff's perspective is revisionist without being contentious. I hope this book will find a wide readership." -James Juhnke, Bethel College, Emeritus "In Pilgrims on the Silk Road, Ratliff has brought to light a fascinating but little known chapter in the history of European involvement in Central Asia, along the silk road. His portrait of the Mennonite mission to Khiva makes for great reading and an excellent companion to such classic works as Peter Hopkirk's The Great Game." -Charles M. Stang, Harvard Divinity School Author Biography: Walter Ratliff is a journalist and religion scholar from Washington, DC. He holds degrees from Georgetown University, Wheaton College, and the University of New Mexico. He is the producer/director of the documentary "Through the Desert Goes Our Journey" (2008).
Book Synopsis Journey to Khiva Through the Turkoman Country by : Nikolaj Nikolaevič Muravʹev
Download or read book Journey to Khiva Through the Turkoman Country written by Nikolaj Nikolaevič Muravʹev and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Russian Central Asia by : Henry Lansdell
Download or read book Russian Central Asia written by Henry Lansdell and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Journey to Khiva by : Nikolaĭ Nikolaevich Muravʹev
Download or read book Journey to Khiva written by Nikolaĭ Nikolaevich Muravʹev and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book On the Road to Khiva written by David Ker and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A ride to Khiva, travels and adventures in central Asia by : Frederick Gustavus Burnaby
Download or read book A ride to Khiva, travels and adventures in central Asia written by Frederick Gustavus Burnaby and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Khiva to Samarkand - The Remarkable Story of a Woman's Adventurous Journey Alone Through the Deserts of Central Asia to the Heart of Turkestan by : Ella Robertson Christie
Download or read book Khiva to Samarkand - The Remarkable Story of a Woman's Adventurous Journey Alone Through the Deserts of Central Asia to the Heart of Turkestan written by Ella Robertson Christie and published by . This book was released on 2009-04-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Journey to the North of India by : Arthur Conolly
Download or read book Journey to the North of India written by Arthur Conolly and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Travels in Central Asia by : Ármin Vámbéry
Download or read book Travels in Central Asia written by Ármin Vámbéry and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Journey to Khiva by : Philip Glazebrook
Download or read book Journey to Khiva written by Philip Glazebrook and published by Kodansha. This book was released on 1994 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AN EXPEDITION INTO THE HEART OF CENTRAL ASIA Inspired by the great adventurers of the Victorian era and intrigued by the history of the Great Game-the century-long struggle between Britain and Russia to control Central Asia-Philip Glazebrook set out on his own journey to the fabled cities of Tashkent, Bokhara, Samarkand, and Khiva. Along theway he encountered remains of two other empires: the Soviet Union, whose spreading disorder was brought home by a terrifying attack in his Moscow hotel room, and the domain of Tamerlane, the thirteenth-century conqueror whose memory and monuments still dominate the imagination of the regionsinhabitants Blending his own experiences with tales from earlier travelers, Glazebrook captures the color and fascination of a region where Europe and Asia have long met but never merged, a crucial crossroads from the days of the Silk Road to the present.
Book Synopsis A Ride to Khiva: Travels and Adventures in Central Asia by : Frederick Burnaby
Download or read book A Ride to Khiva: Travels and Adventures in Central Asia written by Frederick Burnaby and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-04-06 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book A Ride to Khiva written by Fred Burnaby and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-12-15 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Captain Burnaby's 1875 journey through Russian territory during the 'Great Game', when Russia and Britain vied to control central Asia.
Download or read book A Ride to Khiva written by Fred Burnaby and published by . This book was released on 2015-06-29 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Ride to Khiva: Travels and Adventures in Central Asia About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Book Synopsis Narrative of a Journey from Heraut to Khiva, Moscow, and St. Petersburgh, During the Late Russian Invasion of Khiva by : Sir James Abbott
Download or read book Narrative of a Journey from Heraut to Khiva, Moscow, and St. Petersburgh, During the Late Russian Invasion of Khiva written by Sir James Abbott and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Ride to Khiva written by Fred Burnaby and published by London ; Paris : C. Petter & Galpin. This book was released on 1877 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
