Out of Steppe
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Daniel Metcalfe journeys through the five ‘stans, as well as Pakistan and Afghanistan, and brings to life the brilliant human tapestry they comprise – uniquely shaped by the immigrants, deportees and conquerors that have settled there. Revealing a Central Asia that is far removed from the home of Borat or the land of international terrorism, Metcalfe unlocks the secrets of this troubled region, glorying in its diversity and also lamenting the economic and cultural changes that threaten to eradicate some of its peoples…

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Weight 0.213 kg
Dimensions 1.9 × 12.9 × 19.8 cm
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Paperback
Language

Pages

304
Publisher

Year Published

2010-3-4
Imprint

Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom
ISBN 10

0099524996
About The Author

Daniel Metcalfe left Oxford University in 2002 with a degree in Classics. Long fascinated by Central Asia, he taught himself Persian and headed to Iran and the steppes. An energetic traveller, Metcalfe – who also speaks Russian, Swedish and Portuguese – has journeyed extensively throughout Asia, Eastern Europe and the Caucasus.

This book's idea is timely: a quest for six ethnic communities that, after surviving the depredations of Sovietism, are now, as Central Asia modernises, disappearing … [Metcalfe's] book has many virtues, the greatest of which are courage and a keen eye for detail, plus an ability to convey the essence of a place through the briefest of anecdotes
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This is a book of great warmth and immense scholarship, in the best tradition of travel writing. It opens up a region about which most of us are vague. It is fascinating reading

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