Beyond the Oxus
John Murray Publishers Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-7195-6402-4 (ISBN)
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Along the banks of the river once called Oxus lie the heartlands of Central Asia: Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. Catapulted into the news by events in Afghanistan, just across the water, these strategically important, intriguing and beautiful countries remain almost completely unknown to the outside world. One diligent seminary student in the holy city of Bukhara was exhiled to Siberia as a shepherd in the 1917 revolution and then conscripted into the Red Army. Tens of thousands of Poles walked and rode through Central Asia on their way to a new life in Iran. In this region, the extraordinary is commonplace and there is not a family without a remarkable story to tell. Here Monica Whitlock goes far beyond the headlines. Using eyewitness accounts, unpublished letters and first-hand reporting, she enteres into the lives of the Central Asians and reveals a dramatic and moving story unfolding over three generations. Beyond the Oxus is both a chronicle of a century and a clear-eyed, authoritative view of contemporary events, taking us beyond the common cliches and prejudices about both the Soviet Union and the Muslim world.
Monica Whitlock has worked for the BBC World Service since 1991. She first went to Afghanistan in 1992 and was the BBC Central Asia correspondent from 1995 to 1998, with offices in Tashkent, Dushanbe and Almaty. Since then she has reported from Iran and Syria and returned to Central Asia several times, reporting from Dushanbe and Tashkent in the immediate aftermath of the attacks in the United States of September 2001. She now lives in London.
The setting - the shrine of al-Hakim of Termez: witnesses and actors; journeys in the dark - the migration across the Amu; the world turned upside-down; a town called Monday; "a Paradise on earth"; "Why were we there?" - Afghanistan; "What is to become of us?"; kartoshka, kartushka - war in Tajikistan; on both sides of the Amu; a year in Tashkent; what happened in Mazar-e Sharif; the Glinka Street plot; what tomorrow brings.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 4.7.2002 |
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| Zusatzinfo | 16 pp B/W photos plus maps |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 165 x 23 mm |
| Gewicht | 628 g |
| Themenwelt | Reisen ► Bildbände ► Asien |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-7195-6402-6 / 0719564026 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-7195-6402-4 / 9780719564024 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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