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Under The Heartless Blue

Author : Allyson Stack
Publisher : Cargo Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1910449873
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Under The Heartless Blue written by Allyson Stack and published by Cargo Publishing. This book was released on 2016-06-21 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arizona, 1884, and Vera Palmer, a 23 year old widow from genteel Connecticut arrives in the frontier town of Goose Flat to take up a prospecting claim inherited from her dead husband, and a part-time job as a bookeeper in a local boarding house. The boarding house is in fact a brothel but, needing the money, Vera takes the job anyway. She's soon drawn into the violent, abused lives of the working girls and Sadie, their Madame. Vera is attracted to bar regular Will Keane, a local lawyer, who helps her investigate the mining claim. Can love offer her an escape or will the unpredictable, dangerous world surrounding the Star Mansion brothel destroy the relationship and Vera's hopes of a new life? Here Allyson Stack offers a gripping, beautifully wrought love story amidst a wholly authentic evocation of the Wild West at its most threatening. 'An astonishing, accomplished novel. The vivid, visceral descriptions transport the reader to the Arizona of the 1880s and French Battlefields of 1918 as we follow the life of the extraordinary Vera Palmer. Alive with memorable characters, from the working girls in the brothel where Vera works as bookkeeper, to the pioneering and brave young woman doctor, ‘Tosh’, whom she befriends in wartime France, this is a novel to be savoured and remembered.' Maureen Myant, author of The Search 'An impressive debut that juxtaposes two periods in history which, though close in time, often seem so far apart in our imagination. From the Wild West to the Western Front, in Vera we have a protagonist, vulnerable and adventerous, open-hearted and independent, in whose company it is a pleasure to travel. The writing is luxurious and sensual. Under the Heartless Blue is a bewitching story of love, loss and survival told with humour and heart-breaking honesty." Iain Maloney, author of The Waves Burn Bright, Silma Hill and First Time Solo 'Allyson Stack brings us a committed, luminous debut; a historical novel you won’t forget. Set beneath the capricious skies of 1918 Europe and the wild old Arizona Territory, Vera's story is gutsy, effervescent and mesmerizing.' Alan Warner, author of Morven Callar, The Stars in the Bright Sky and Dead Man's Pedal

Heartless Prince

Author : Leigh Dragoon
Publisher : Disney Electronic Content
ISBN 13 : 1368048404
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book Heartless Prince written by Leigh Dragoon and published by Disney Electronic Content. This book was released on 2021-11-30 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fierce warrior must save the heart of her beloved prince before it's too late in the first book of a new YA fantasy-adventure graphic novel trilogy, perfect for fans of Noelle Stevenson's Nimona and Kazu Kibuishi's Amulet Evony is an orphaned princess from a kingdom destroyed by a power-hungry witch. Prince Ammon has recently been drawn to her, or at least he's drawn to her uncanny ability to sense when familiars—servants to the witches—are approaching his kingdom's borders. And Evony, well Evony has always longed for something more with Ammon. Wanting to prove himself to his kingdom and parents, Ammon takes Evony outside the borders to fight the familiars head-to-head. All is well until they're captured by witch Aradia, who steals Ammon's heart and leaves his body to turn into one of her familiars. What's worse, his sister Nissa has been taken hostage by Aradia's daughter. Evony makes it her mission to retrieve Ammon's heart and save Nissa, taking her into the mysterious Witchlands. There, she will discover a secret about her past that will change everything.

Yi Kwang-su and Modern Korean Literature, Mujŏng

Author : Ann Sung-hi Lee
Publisher : Cornell East Asia Series
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Yi Kwang-su and Modern Korean Literature, Mujŏng written by Ann Sung-hi Lee and published by Cornell East Asia Series. This book was released on 2005 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yi Kwang-su (1892-1950) was one of the pioneers of modern Korean literature. When the serialization of Mujông (The Heartless) began in 1917, it was an immediate sensation, and it occupies a prominent place in the Korean literary canon. The Heartless is the story of a love triangle among three youths during the Japanese occupation. Yi Hyông-sik is a young man in his mid-twenties who is teaching English at a middle school in Seoul. Brilliant but also shy and indecisive, he is torn between two women. Kim Sôn-hyông is from a wealthy Christian family; she has just graduated from a modern, Western-style school and is planning on continuing her studies in the United States. Pak Yông-ch'ae is a musically gifted young woman who was raised in a traditional Confucian manner; due to family misfortune, she has become a kisaeng but remains devoted to Hyông-sik whom she knew as a child. The Heartless goes beyond the level of romantic melodrama and uses these characters to depict Korea's struggles with modern culture and national identity.A long critical introduction discusses Yi Kwang-su's life and work from his birth in 1892 to the publication of his first novel The Heartless in 1917. It contains in-depth analyses of the novel, Yi Kwang-su's literary theory, and early short stories.

Heartless

Author : Winter Renshaw
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781985346673
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (466 download)

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Download or read book Heartless written by Winter Renshaw and published by . This book was released on 2018-02-15 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My obsession was born of innocence and good intentions, and it began the day I spotted a handwritten journal lying in the bushes outside a townhouse on Lexington Avenue. It was raining sideways that morning, and my plan was to return it the next day; safe and dry. Only I kept it. I kept it, and I read it. A week later, overwhelmed with curiosity and feeling guilty for harboring secrets that didn't belong to me, I tried to return it. Only I wasn't expecting to meet him. Unapologetically heartless and enigmatically sexy, he claims he knows nothing about the journal I found outside his place, but the reticent glint in his blue-green gaze tells me otherwise. There's something different about him; something damaged yet magical, and I'm drawn to him; pulled into his orbit. There's just one problem.The more I get to know him, the more I'm positive the journal belonged to him . . .. . . and the more I find myself hoping, selfishly, that I'm wrong.

Into the Heartless Wood

Author : Joanna Ruth Meyer
Publisher : Page Street YA
ISBN 13 : 1645671712
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book Into the Heartless Wood written by Joanna Ruth Meyer and published by Page Street YA. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The forest is a dangerous place, where siren song lures men and women to their deaths. For centuries, a witch has harvested souls to feed the heartless tree, using its power to grow her domain. When Owen Merrick is lured into the witch’s wood, one of her tree-siren daughters, Seren, saves his life instead of ending it. Every night, he climbs over the garden wall to see her, and every night her longing to become human deepens. But a shift in the stars foretells a dangerous curse, and Seren’s quest to become human will lead them into an ancient war raging between the witch and the king who is trying to stop her.

Words in Deep Blue

Author : Cath Crowley
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 1101937661
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Words in Deep Blue written by Cath Crowley and published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2017-06-06 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “One of the loveliest, most exquisitely beautiful books I’ve read in a very long time. . . . I didn’t just read the pages, I lived in them.” —Jennifer Niven, New York Times bestselling author of All the Bright Places A beautiful love story for fans of Jandy Nelson and Nicola Yoon: two teens find their way back to each other in a bookstore full of secrets and crushes, grief and hope—and letters hidden between the pages. Years ago, Rachel had a crush on Henry Jones. The day before she moved away, she tucked a love letter into his favorite book in his family’s bookshop. She waited. But Henry never came. Now Rachel has returned to the city—and to the bookshop—to work alongside the boy she’d rather not see, if at all possible, for the rest of her life. But Rachel needs the distraction. Her brother drowned months ago, and she can’t feel anything anymore. As Henry and Rachel work side by side—surrounded by books, watching love stories unfold, exchanging letters between the pages—they find hope in each other. Because life may be uncontrollable, even unbearable sometimes. But it’s possible that words, and love, and second chances are enough.

Zodiac Academy 7

Author : Caroline Peckham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781914425141
Total Pages : 1016 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (251 download)

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Download or read book Zodiac Academy 7 written by Caroline Peckham and published by . This book was released on 2021-12-18 with total page 1016 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The winds of fate are shifting, and it finally seems like they've been twisted in our favour. There is no turning from this path now. The curse chases on our heels as time rushes by and the blood drenched destiny of the man I love looms ever closer just like the monster who stole our throne. We must prepare for the final battle, but three things are clear now. The cards have already been dealt. Blood will spill for a new future to rise. And the stars themselves can't help us. The fight for the throne is upon us. All hail the heartless sky"--Page 4 of cover.

The Medusa Frequency

Author : Russell Hoban
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408835681
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book The Medusa Frequency written by Russell Hoban and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-06-18 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inexplicable message flashed onto the screen of his Apple II computer at 3 a.m. heralds the beginning of a startling quest for frustrated author Herman Orff. Taking up the offer of a cure for writer's block leads him 'to those places in your head that you can't get to on your own' - and plunges him into a semi-dreamland inhabited by a bizarre combination of characters from myth and reality: the talking head of Orpheus; a lost love; the young girl of Vermeer's famous portrait - and a frequency of Medusas.

Nobody's Angel

Author : Thomas McGuane
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 030782201X
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Nobody's Angel written by Thomas McGuane and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-06-13 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel about a former soldier in Big Sky Country whose life is spiraling out of control, from the acclaimed author of Ninety-two in the Shade and Cloudbursts, who is "among the most arresting and fascinating [writers] of his generation" (San Francisco Chronicle). In McGuane's first novel set in his famed American West, Patrick Fitzpatrick is a former soldier, a fourth-generation cowboy, and a whiskey addict. His grandfather wants to run away to act in movies, his sister wants to burn the house down, and his new stallion is bent on killing him: all of them urgently require attention. But increasingly Patrick himself is spiraling out of control, into that region of romantic misadventure and vanishing possibilities that is Thomas McGuane's Montana. Nowhere has McGuane mapped that territory more precisely—or with such tenderhearted lunacy—than in Nobody's Angel, a novel that places him in a genre of his own.

A Merman's Kingdom

Author : Billy Guajardo
Publisher : XinXii
ISBN 13 : 3987629061
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (876 download)

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Download or read book A Merman's Kingdom written by Billy Guajardo and published by XinXii. This book was released on 2023-03-17 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Merman Named Stares will finally join a Sea of Creatures. He will enjoy a good swim, fresh fish for Lunch, and a Beautiful Mermaid to share his Dream within the Colony. A Blue Scaled Mermaid that he will come to care for, fight, and die in an attempt to save the Mergirl from a predator. A Mermaid Bone Crunching Meat Eating Monster. He will face many unexplored places and countless monsters. A Place Forbidden by The Gods and Goddesses that Ruled Millenniums Ago over the Sea. A Graveyard Built for Watery-Eyed Gods. That Lived Millenniums Ago. He Will Face the Dark Gods and Goddesses from another Time and Era. A Huge Graveyard of Dinosaur Remains and Prehistoric Skeletons of Huge Sea Creatures. Each will be exposed in a cloud of soft, white-colored sand. Monstrous Warrior Mermen from 1000s of years ago Lay in Rock. Some in Statuesque Form. Each on the bottom of the Dark and Dead Seas. A Story Based on a 13-foot Silvery Blue Scaled Merman with Powder Blue Eyes. And a Colony of Blue Scaled Mermaids. Mermen Colonies that live near the Ocean Floor. A Dark Scaly Demented Mermen and Mermaid Colony also Live There. Beneath the Clean, Clear, Crystal Water in the Dark, Black, and Dead Seas. Some in the Dark, Dead Mediterranean, Red, Baltic, and Black, Seas. Each Colony will fight for its survival and for its species. An Ancient Graveyard for Mighty Mermen Gods and Warrior Mermen from yesteryear, Stand on the white sand on a pedestal on the Ocean Floor. Surrounded in chalky white light dust. A current in the Sea would make the white sand rise around them. Which can only be seen when the Sea is at its calmest or turmoil. A Castle Built at the Bottom of the Sea belongs to The Gods. Gargantuan Mermen that lived Millenniums Ago. Reign in the Dark and Dead Seas. A Towering structure made of Bones of other Gods and Monsters formed the Kingdom of The Godless Gods. An Epic Novel with 100,000 words. A Fantasy Adventure, and Horror Novel.

Pearl S. Buck

Author : Peter Conn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521639897
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (398 download)

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Download or read book Pearl S. Buck written by Peter Conn and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-01-28 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most popular novelists of the twentieth century, winner of a Pulitzer and Nobel Prize for Literature and an active social and political campaigner, particularly in the field of women's issues and Asian-American relations, Pearl Buck has, until now, remained 'hidden in public view'. Best known, perhaps, as the prolific author of The Good Earth, Buck led a career which extended well beyond her eighty works of fiction and non-fiction and deep into the public sphere. In this critically acclaimed biography, Peter Conn retrieves Pearl Buck from the footnotes of literary and cultural history and reinstates her as a figure of compelling and uncommon significance in twentieth-century literary, cultural and political history.

Big Sur

Author : Jack Kerouac
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101548819
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Big Sur written by Jack Kerouac and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-04-26 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A poignant masterpiece of wrenching personal expression from the acclaimed author of On the Road “In many ways, particularly in the lyrical immediacy that is his distinctive glory, this is Kerouac’s best book . . . certainly he has never displayed more ‘gentle sweetness.’”—San Francisco Chronicle Jack Kerouac’s alter ego Jack Duluoz, overwhelmed by success and excess, gravitates back and forth between wild binges in San Francisco and an isolated cabin on the California coast where he attempts to renew his spirit and clear his head of madness and alcohol. Only nature seems to restore him to a sense of balance. In the words of Allen Ginsberg, Big Sur “reveals consciousness in all its syntactic elaboration, detailing the luminous emptiness of his own paranoiac confusion.”

Backlands: A Novel

Author : Victoria Shorr
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393246035
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)

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Download or read book Backlands: A Novel written by Victoria Shorr and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2015-05-11 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this Bonnie and Clyde story of love and betrayal, a band of outlaws fight for control of the brutal Brazilian outback. Set in the sparse frontier settlements of northeastern Brazil—a dry, forbidding, and wild region the size of Texas, known locally as the Sertão—Backlands tells the true story of a group of nomadic outlaws who reigned over the area from about 1922 until 1938. Taking from the rich, admired—and feared—by the poor, they were led by the famously charismatic bandit Lampião. The gang maintained their influence by fighting off all the police and soldiers the region could muster. A one-eyed goat rancher who first set out to avenge his father's murder in a lawless land, Lampião proved to be too good a leader, fighter, and strategist to ever return home again. By 1925 he commanded the biggest gang of outlaws in Brazil. Known to this day as a "prince," Lampião had everything: brains, money, power, charisma, and luck. Everything but love, until he met Maria Bonita. "You teach me to make lace, and I'll teach you to make love"—this was the song the bandits marched to, across the vast open reaches of their starkly beautiful backlands, and it was Maria Bonita who made it come true. She was stuck in a loveless marriage when she met Lampião, but she rode off with him, becoming "Queen of the Bandits." Together the couple—still celebrated folk heroes—would become the country's most wanted figures, protecting their extraordinary freedom through cunning. Victoria Shorr's stunning literary debut tells Maria's story, her narrative of the intense freedoms, terrors, and sorrows of this chosen life, the end of which is clear to her all along. With the federal government in Rio mobilizing against the bandits, Backlands describes the epic final days of Lampião’s "fatal month," July on the River of Disorder, as the gang struggles to summon their good star to save them one more time.

In Calamity's Wake

Author : Natalee Caple
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 162040186X
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book In Calamity's Wake written by Natalee Caple and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-09-17 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Miette has no desire to meet the mother who discarded her, a woman she knows only as an infamous soldier, drinker, and exhibition shooter: Martha Canary, made notorious as Calamity Jane. But Miette's beloved adoptive father makes a deathbed request that the two be reunited: “You have to do it . . . Promise me you will not change your mind. I know that you've heard sickening things and those things are all true but I'm sure she wants to know you.” Keen to honor her father's wishes, Miette traverses the Badlands of the North American West, searching for her mother across a landscape occupied by strangers, ghosts, and animals. On her journey she meets an old lover of her father's, a man who claims to be her brother, an imposter she thinks is her mother, the Negro minstrel Lew Spencer, a kind madam who is her mother's best friend, a wolf who longs to protect her, and many others. Woven into Miette's journey are the stories of Jane as told in legends, history books, and dime store novels; by her friends and enemies; and by the woman herself. The many ephemeral truths of these tales come together and Miette must decide whether to forgive the woman who had forsaken her for a life of danger and adventure. In Calamity's Wake vividly recalls one of the most colorful icons in America's history.

A Field on Mars

Author : Jerome Rothenberg
Publisher : Presses universitaires de Rouen et du Havre
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book A Field on Mars written by Jerome Rothenberg and published by Presses universitaires de Rouen et du Havre. This book was released on 2016-07-12 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rothenberg says: Look, hear, weigh, touch, feel, consider, this is where humans have been, this is the signandflesh and signature and shadow of our ancestry and lineage, our past, present and future, this is the trail, the human trail, this is where there is nothing to hide, nothing to fear, only sharing, infinite sharing.

Horrible Eschaton System

Author : Gui GuShiGaoShou
Publisher : Funstory
ISBN 13 : 1636459870
Total Pages : 630 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (364 download)

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Download or read book Horrible Eschaton System written by Gui GuShiGaoShou and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-09-12 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wang Ren, an orphan without money or food, accidentally acquired the Apocalypse System. Under the outbreak of the biological crisis, relying on the Apocalypse System, he walked step by step to the peak, establishing an immortal dynasty of survivors, fighting zombies, killing the mutated beasts. When Wang Ren took back the lost land of the entire human race, he realized, this was a conspiracy, a conspiracy of an alien invading Earth.

Stans By Me

Author : Ged Gillmore
Publisher : deGrevilo
ISBN 13 : 0648189031
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book Stans By Me written by Ged Gillmore and published by deGrevilo. This book was released on 2019-05-27 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Central Asia is the hot new travel destination. Curious to see what all the fuss is about? Join intrepid traveler, Ged Gillmore, as he journeys with an unlikely group of characters on a whirlwind tour through the five ‘Stans – Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. * Prepare yourself to come face to face with mesmerizing landscapes and striking citadels that look like sets from Star Wars and Game of Thrones. * Learn about ancient rituals such as goat-pulling and bride-stealing that are still practiced today. * Visit floating mountains, singing dunes, sunken forests and bejeweled cities so beautiful they are almost impossible to describe. Along the way you’ll encounter yurt erections, bullet trains and enemy Silk Road travel agents. You’ll learn how a baby’s first steps are celebrated in Kyrgyzstan. You’ll become acquainted with the life-and-death importance of etiquette in a Khan’s palace. And you’ll be gently reminded that people – even those on a seemingly boring bus tour – are rarely what they seem. 'Stans By Me' is a hilarious Central Asia travel memoir, full of fascinating characters, magnificent monuments and curious customs – all told with Gillmore’s deadpan British wit. If you enjoy the offbeat travel tales of Bill Bryson, David Sedaris, J. Maarten Troost or Will Ferguson, you’ll definitely get a kick out of 'Stans By Me'. Get it now! ----------------------------------------------------- PRAISE FOR STANS BY ME: 'What a journey, told with humor and great descriptive writing.' 'Entertaining, informative and really well written - just the right balance.' 'If you like Bill Bryson's style of writing you will enjoy this. It has humour and loads of information.' ‘A wonderful alternative to a dry Lonely Planet travel guide – Stans By Me is enlightening, inspiring, evocative and downright witty.’ ‘I’ll soon be traveling the Silk Road and doing some trekking in Tajikistan and this travel guide has left me so excited about my trip of a lifetime.’ ‘A superb and entertaining travel guide covering the wonders of Central Asia and the Silk Road. Inspiring writing.’ Search terms: travel, Asia, Central Asia, road trip, independent travel, tours, road travel, former Soviet republics, essays & travelogues, travel writing, armchair travel, destination, off the beaten track, Kazakhstan, Almaty, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, tourism, travel guide