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A Carpet Ride to Khiva: Seven Years on the Silk Road

By Chris Aslan, Christopher Alexander
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By Chris Aslan, Christopher Alexander

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The Silk Road conjures images of the exotic and the unknown. Most travellers simply pass along it. Brit Chris Alexander chose to live there. Ostensibly writing a guidebook, Alexander found life at the heart of the glittering madrassahs, mosques and minarets of the walled city of Khiva - a remote desert oasis in Uzbekistan - immensely alluring, and stayed.





Immersing himself in the language and rich cultural traditions Alexander discovers a world torn between Marx and Mohammed - a place where ...

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