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Apples are from Kazakhstan : the land that disappeared
- Title
- Apples are from Kazakhstan : the land that disappeared / Christopher Robbins ; text illustrations and map by Bob Gale.
- Author
- Robbins, Christopher, 1946-2012
- Publication
- New York, NY : Atlas & Co., [2008]
- [Place of distribution not identified] : Distributed to the trade by W.W. Norton & Company
- ©2008
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFC 16-384 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Gale, Bob
- Description
- 296 pages : illustrations, map; 19 cm
- Summary
- Travel writer Christopher Robbins enjoyed unprecedented access to the Kazakh president while crafting this travelogue, and he relates a story by turns hilarious and grim. He finds Eminem-worship by a shrinking Aral Sea, hears the Kazakh John Lennon play in a dusty desert town, joins nomads hunting eagles, eats boiled sheep's head (a delicacy), and explores some of the most beautiful, unspoiled places on earth. Meet the country that gave the world apples, trousers, and possibly King Arthur.
- Uniform Title
- In search of Kazakhstan
- Alternative Title
- In search of Kazakhstan
- Subjects
- Note
- "First published as 'In search of Kazakhstan' in the United Kingdom by Profile Books Ltd. 3A Exmouth House, Exmouth Market, Pine Street, London EC1R oJYH, United Kingdom."--Title page verso.
- Contents
- Apples are from Kazakhstan -- My neighbor, Trotsky -- National treasures -- City of the plain and the vanishing sea -- The explorer, the Beatle and new money -- Love and death in old Semipalatinsk -- Pickled tomatoes from the Gulag -- The howling of wolves.
- Call Number
- JFC 16-384
- ISBN
- 9780977743384
- 0977743381
- LCCN
- 2007532324
- OCLC
- 780000492
- Author
- Robbins, Christopher, 1946-2012, author.
- Title
- Apples are from Kazakhstan : the land that disappeared / Christopher Robbins ; text illustrations and map by Bob Gale.
- Publisher
- New York, NY : Atlas & Co., [2008]
- Distributor
- [Place of distribution not identified] : Distributed to the trade by W.W. Norton & Company
- Copyright Date
- ©2008
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Added Author
- Gale, Bob, illustrator.
- Research Call Number
- JFC 16-384