num_pages: 288
description: AN EXPEDITION INTO THE HEART OF CENTRAL ASIAInspired 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 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.
language: English
title: Journey to Khiva: A Writers Search for Central Asia
titlecomplete: Journey to Khiva: A Writers Search for Central Asia (Kodansha Globe)
genres: History, Travel, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 33
publisher: Kodansha USA