Starting near the roof of the world on the Soviet Union's border with China, Geoffrey Moorhouse's journey through Central Asia winds across mountains, steppes and desert as well as the path of the retreating Red Army before reaching Tamburlaine's tomb in Samarakand. The sequel to his award winning To the Frontier, Apples in the Snow is both a dramatic history of this wild region and an absorbing portrait of its present. 'A beautifully written account ... Moorhouse is one of the great travellers: everywhere attuned to past ...
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Starting near the roof of the world on the Soviet Union's border with China, Geoffrey Moorhouse's journey through Central Asia winds across mountains, steppes and desert as well as the path of the retreating Red Army before reaching Tamburlaine's tomb in Samarakand. The sequel to his award winning To the Frontier, Apples in the Snow is both a dramatic history of this wild region and an absorbing portrait of its present. 'A beautifully written account ... Moorhouse is one of the great travellers: everywhere attuned to past and present, to the uneasiness and muted discords of the people about him, to the mundane, the ridiculous and the extraordinary beauties of Central Asia.' Guardian
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Add this copy of Apples in the Snow Journey to Samarkand to cart. $15.00, very good condition, Sold by Ainsworth Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Sumas, WA, UNITED STATES, published 1990 by Hodder & Stoughton Ltd.
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Illustrated by Map Endpapers. Very Good in Very Good+ dust jacket. 0340525320. Light edge wear to dust jacket, pages a little tanned as is common in British publications of this era. Previous owner has written a few notes bottom of page 100; 9.29 X 6.38 X 0.94 inches; 224 pages; "Follows the author's travels through Central Asia from the Russian border with China to the dome of Gur Emir. The author offers a history of the areas he visited and describes the tension which exists between Russians and Muslims in the south of the Soviet Union due to perestroika."
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Very Good in Very Good, Price Clipped jacket. Book Some edge wear to boards and dust jacket; previous owner's name on half-title page; otherwise a solid, clean copy with no marking or underlining; collectable condition; dust jacket is protected by a Brodart sleeve.
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F- in F- jacket. F-/F-. 8vo. original brown boards gilt (inscrip. to title page) in dustwrapper (price-clipped); pp. 190, with an endpaper map. A near fine copy.
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