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Apples are from Kazakhstan : the land that disappeared
- Title
- Apples are from Kazakhstan : the land that disappeared / Christopher Robbins.
- Author
- Robbins, Christopher, 1946-2012.
- Publication
- New York : Atlas & Co., [2008], ©2008.
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Details
- Description
- 296 pages : illustrations, map; 19 cm
- Summary
- "Closed to foreigners under Romanov and Soviet rule, Kazakhstan has remained largely hidden from the world - a remarkable feat for a country the size of Western Europe. Few would guess that Kazakhstan - a blank in Westerners' collective geography - turns out to be diverse, tolerant, and surprisingly modern, the country that gave the world apples, trousers, and even, perhaps, King Arthur." "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."--BOOK JACKET.
- Uniform Title
- In search of Kazakhstan
- Alternative Title
- In search of Kazakhstan
- Subject
- Note
- Previously published under the title In search of Kazakhstan (London : Profile Books, 2007).
- Contents
- 1. Apples Are from Kazakhstan -- 2. My Neighbor, Trotsky -- 3. National Treasures -- 4. City of the Plain and the Vanishing Sea -- 5. The Explorer, the Beatle and New Money -- 6. Love and Death in Old Semipalatinsk -- 7. Pickled Tomatoes from the Gulag -- 8. The Howling of Wolves.
- ISBN
- 0977743381
- 9780977743384
- LCCN
- 99820960639
- OCLC
- ocn192101916
- 192101916
- SCSB-14069682
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries