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Chasing the Sea: Lost Among the Ghosts of Empire in Central Asia
Chasing the Sea Lost Among the Ghosts of Empire in Central Asia
Author: Tom Bissell
In 1960, the Aral Sea was the size of Lake Michigan: a huge body of water in the deserts of Central Asia. By 1996, when Tom Bissell arrived in Uzbekistan as a naïve Peace Corps volunteer, disastrous Soviet irrigation policies had shrunk the sea to a third its size. Bissell lasted only a few months before complications forced him to return h...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780375421303
ISBN-10: 0375421300
Publication Date: 9/23/2003
Pages: 416
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Publisher: Pantheon
Book Type: Hardcover
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