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.

Download or read book Khiva and Turkestan written by H. Spalding and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-02-16 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.

Download or read book A Narrative of the Russian Military Expedition to Khiva Under General Perofski in 1839 written by Graf Vasiliĭ Aleksi︠e︡evich Perovskiĭ and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book A ride to Khiva travels and adventures in central Asia written by Frederick Gustavus Burnaby and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Ride to Khiva written by Fred Burnaby and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-12-15 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Captain Burnaby's 1875 journey through Russian territory during the 'Great Game', when Russia and Britain vied to control central Asia.

Download or read book The Great Game A narrative of the Russian military expedition to Khiva in 1839 written by Martin Ewans and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2004 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: second spans the period between that conflict and the Second Anglo-Afghan War, 1878-80, while the third terminates with the Anglo-Russian Convention of 1907, which effectively marked the end of the confrontation.

Download or read book Narrative of a Journey from Heraut To Khiva Moscow and St Petersburgh During the Late Russion Invasion of Khiva with Some Account of the Court of Khiva and the Kingdom of Khaurism written by James Abbott and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Campaigning on the Oxus and the Fall of Khiva written by J. Gahan and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-04-17 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.

Download or read book Seeking Justice at the Court of the Khans of Khiva written by Paolo Sartori and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-06-08 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Seeking Justice at the Court of the Khans of Khiva, Sartori and Abdurasulov show that in Khorezm prior to Sovietization the dispensation of justice according to Islamic law depended mostly on a group of officials representing the dynasty in power, and lacking specialised legal training.

Download or read book Narrative of a Journey from Heraut to Khiva Moscow and St Petersburgh During the Late Russian Invasion of Khiva written by Sir James Abbott and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Great Game pt 1 Journey to Khiva through the Turkoman Country 1819 20 written by Nikolai N. Muraviev and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2004 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: second spans the period between that conflict and the Second Anglo-Afghan War, 1878-80, while the third terminates with the Anglo-Russian Convention of 1907, which effectively marked the end of the confrontation.

Download or read book A Ride to Khiva written by Fred Burnaby and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Ride to Khiva Travels and Adventures in Central Asia written by Fred Burnaby and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Ride to Khiva Travels and Adventures in Central Asia by Fred Burnaby written by Frederick Gustavus Burnaby and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Russian Expedition to Khiva in 1873 written by Emil Schmidt and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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