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Couldn't get all the way through it, instead of the travel narrative it purported to be, it was more of a history book, pages and pages of what was probably copied from a library. Learned a bit about Uzbekistan and the author has a good style of writing when he wasn't quoting history books.
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Written by a burned-out former Peace Corps volunteer--this book gives some great insights (from an early 2000s perspective/context) on the history of Uzbekistan & the Uzbeks, including the effect of 70+ years of socialistic control and planning. What an unmitigated disaster overall. Though only the last chapter of the book actually deals with the man-made "designed" disaster of the Aral Sea, it is a fitting summary to the book's subtitle invoking the "ghosts of empire in Central Asia." Here's Bi
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