Chasing the Sea : Lost Among the Ghosts of Empire in Central Asia
Author(s): Tom Bissell
In 1996, Tom Bissell went to Uzbekistan as a Peace Corps volunteer. Though he lasted only a few months before illness and personal crisis forced him home, Bissell found himself entranced by this remote land. Five years later he returned to explore the shrinking Aral Sea, destroyed by Soviet irrigation policies. Joining up with an exuberant translator named Rustam, Bissell slips more than once through the clutches of the Uzbek police as he makes his often wild way to the devastated sea. In Chasing the Sea, Bissell combines the story of his travels with a beguiling chronicle of Uzbekistan
Product Information
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- : Vintage Books
- : Vintage Books
- : 01 January 2004
- : books
Special Fields
- : Tom Bissell
- : Paperback
- : very good
- : 388