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Chasing the sea : being a narrative of a journey through Uzbekistan, including descriptions of life therein, culminating with an arrival at the Aral Sea, the world's worst man-made ecological catastrophe, in one volume / Tom Bissell.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bissell, Tom, 1974-
- Series:
- Vintage departures
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bissell, Tom, 1974-.
- Nature--Effect of human beings on.
- Environmental degradation.
- Travel.
- Uzbekistan--Description and travel.
- Uzbekistan.
- Bissell, Tom, 1974---Travel--Uzbekistan.
- Bissell, Tom.
- Environmental degradation--Aral Sea Region (Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan).
- Nature--Effect of human beings on--Aral Sea Region (Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan).
- Nature.
- Aral Sea Region (Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan)--History.
- Aral Sea Region (Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan).
- Asia--Aral Sea Region.
- Genre:
- History.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Physical Description:
- xxi, 388 pages : maps ; 24 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Vintage Books, 2004.
- Summary:
- In 1996, Tom Bissell went to Uzbekistan as a na-ve Peace Corps volunteer. Though he lasted only a few months before illness and personal crisis forced him home, Bissell found himself entranced by this remote land. Five years later he returned to explore the shrinking Aral Sea, destroyed by Soviet irrigation policies. Joining up with an exuberant translator named Rustam, Bissell slips more than once through the clutches of the Uzbek police as he makes his often wild way to the devastated sea. In Chasing the Sea," "Bissell combines the story of his travels with a beguiling chronicle of Uzbekistan's striking culture and long history of violent subjugation by despots from Jenghiz Khan to Joseph Stalin. Alternately amusing and sobering, this is a gripping portrait of a fascinating place, and the debut of a singularly gifted young writer.
- Notes:
- Originally published: New York: Pantheon Books, 2003.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-370) and index.
- ISBN:
- 037572754X
- 9780375727542
- OCLC:
- 56898983
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