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Apples in the Snow: A Journey to Samarkand.

Apples in the Snow: A Journey to Samarkand.

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Apples in the Snow: A Journey to Samarkand.

by MOORHOUSE, GEOFFREY:

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0340525320
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9780340525326
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UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Pictorial colour decorated wrap-around dw/dj with white,yellow and black lettering and minimal shelf-wear and minimal creasing to edges.Top edge very lightly dust-soiled and fore-edges very lightly aged. Contents bright,tight and pristine.Tan paper-covered boards with stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and blue ink map endpapers. "Every journey through central Asia is a quest for Samarkand," writes Geoffrey Moorhouse,and his own was no exception.Moorhouse started near the roof of the world,on the Soviet Union's border with China,and he finished under the turquoise dome of Gur Emir,beside the tomb of Tamburlaine.For two months he tacked from the mountains across the steppe and on to the desert of what used to be Russian Turkestan, savouring its past and watching history being made.He contemplated conquest in the devastation Genghiz Khan left behind at Merv and he witnessed the Red Army retreating from Afghanistan.Everywhere he went he felt the stirrings of perestroika and the tension it has produced between Russian colonisers and Muslims in the south of the Soviet Union. Moorhouse was travelling not only his golden road to Samarkand, but also in the footsteps of the Moghals,whose heartland this was before they conquered India.It is a journey of contrasts,in which he contemplates the music of the Russian Orthodox and the significance of Boris Godunov as well as the deification of Lenin, the epic architecture of Islam and much, much more. 'Apples in the Snow' is an always enthralling and frequently humorous sequel to his prize-winning account of a journey narrated in 'To the Frontier.' Please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,because of the weight and value of this item,for correct,insured shipping/ P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!

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Title
Apples in the Snow: A Journey to Samarkand.
Author
MOORHOUSE, GEOFFREY:
Format/Binding
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Book Condition
Used - FINE.
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FINE.
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UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN 10
0340525320
ISBN 13
9780340525326
Publisher
LONDON.HODDER & STOUGHTON,1990.
Place of Publication
London
This edition first published
1990
Keywords
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