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Download or read book A Carpet Ride to Khiva written by Chris Aslan and published by Icon Books Ltd. This book was released on 2010-07-01 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 veils and vodka, pork and polygamy freely mingle - against a backdrop of forgotten carpet designs, crumbling but magnificent Islamic architecture and scenes drawn straight from "The Arabian Nights". Accompanied by a large green parrot, a ginger cat and his adoptive Uzbek family, Alexander recounts his efforts to rediscover the lost art of traditional weaving and dyeing, and the process establishing a self-sufficient carpet workshop, employing local women and disabled people to train as apprentices. A Carpet Ride to Khiva sees Alexander being stripped naked at a former Soviet youth camp, crawling through silkworm droppings in an attempt to record their life-cycle, holed up in the British Museum discovering carpet designs dormant for half a millennia, tackling a carpet-thieving mayor, distinguishing natural dyes from sacks of opium in Northern Afghanistan, bluffing his way through an impromptu version of "My Heart Will Go On" for national Uzbek TV and seeking sanctuary as an anti-Western riot consumed the Kabul carpet bazaar. It is an unforgettable true travel story of a journey to the heart of the unknown and the unexpected friendship one man found there.
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Download or read book A New Ride to Khiva written by Robert L. Jefferson and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 edition. Excerpt: ... chapter xix. the kara kum /vN the sixth day out from Orsk the trail ran - near the shores of the Aral Sea, and for quite thirty miles I was compelled to push through a swamp, the mud and water of which reached at times over my knees. Later on we began to fall in with the Khirghiz nomads, and espied several of their kibitkas, or black tents, dotted on the steppe. Once we sought shelter from the burning rays of the sun in one of these kibitkas, and there, had it not been for the intervention of the yemshik, or driver of my tarantass, I fear my journey would have been brought to a summary end. My bicycle was looked upon with alarm and dismay, and, when I approached the encampment, the Khirghiz, mounting their horses, made for me with a rush, rending the air with their screams and shouts, and cracking their long 178-. jps in fury. Fearing that they intended to.. me down I dismounted. Along came the Khirehiz like a whirlwind, then circled around me shouting and jabbering in a most furious manner. I threw up my hands to show that I meant them no harm, but I was not quite certain as to the better course--to draw my revolver or to submit My tarantass was a little way behind, I could just faintly hear the jangle of the douga bells; but presently up it dashed at 1 a great speed right into the midst of the Khirghiz, who scattered to right and left. The yemshik stood on his box, waving his knout and shouting something in the Khirghiz language which, of course, was unintelligible to me. Anyway his presence had the effect of calming these extraordinary people, who are half Chinese, half Tartar in appearance, but as wild and reckless looking as Bashi-Bazouks. I was taken to their kibitka, and when their fears of my bicycle had been allayed and its...
Download or read book A New Ride To Khiva written by Jefferson Robert L and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book A Ride to Khiva Travels and Adventures in Central Asia written by Frederick Burnaby and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-04-06 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is 1875, the time of the 'Great Game', when the British and Russian Empires are vying for power in central Asia. Great Britain learns of Russia's plans to annex India, the 'jewel in the crown' of the Empire. A British officer rides for Khiva, a Russian city closed to European travelers. He is on a dangerous mission, to learn if this remote and dangerous oasis is about to be used as a springboard for the Russian invasion of India. Captain Frederick Burnaby ballooned across the English Channel, traveled in Spain and Russia, and was wounded, and eventually killed, fighting for Britain's empire. This account of his perilous journey to Khiva, published in 1876 and immediately reprinted, brought him instant fame.
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