![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Bland takes the reader on a voyage of discovery. An insightful mix of travel, history and reportage, in Does it Yurt? journalist Stephen M. Since independence, Central Asia has seen one civil war, two revolutions and seven dictators. With the collapse of the USSR, the nations of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan were born. Home to the descendants of Jenghiz Khan's Great Horde, in the nineteenth century the once powerful Silk Road states became a pawn in the 'Great Game' of expansion and espionage between Britain and Russia, disappearing behind what would become known as the 'Iron Curtain'. Conjuring images of nomadic horsemen, spectacular monuments, breathtaking scenery and crippling poverty, Central Asia remains an enigma. ![]()
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