Apples are from Kazakhstan : the land that disappeared /
Robbins, Christopher, 1946-
Apples are from Kazakhstan : the land that disappeared / Christopher Robbins. - Ashland, OH : Atlas Books, c2008. - 296 p. : ill., map ; 19 cm.
Previously published under the title In search of Kazakhstan (London : Profile Books, 2007).
Travel writer Christopher Robbins relates a story by turns hilarious and grim as 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. --From amazon.com.
0977743381 9780977743384
2008299516
Robbins, Christopher, 1946- --Travel--Kazakhstan.
Kazakhstan--Description and travel.
338 DK 904 / R632a 2008
915.845
Apples are from Kazakhstan : the land that disappeared / Christopher Robbins. - Ashland, OH : Atlas Books, c2008. - 296 p. : ill., map ; 19 cm.
Previously published under the title In search of Kazakhstan (London : Profile Books, 2007).
Travel writer Christopher Robbins relates a story by turns hilarious and grim as 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. --From amazon.com.
0977743381 9780977743384
2008299516
Robbins, Christopher, 1946- --Travel--Kazakhstan.
Kazakhstan--Description and travel.
338 DK 904 / R632a 2008
915.845