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Author : James Elroy Flecker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1913
Category : English poetry
ISBN : UOM:39015003343582
Author : Yaffa Assouline
Publisher : Assouline Publishing
Page : 5 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781614288916
At the heart of Central Asia lies a land where colossal mountains and sweeping valleys sleep under a blanket of lush greenery. Crowned with golden palaces and wondrous monuments, the architectural landscape of the region is so rich with detail, the structures have been said to mirror the heavens themselves. One of the few destinations on Earth where imagination aligns with reality, Uzbekistan flourishes with unparalleled scenery and unforgotten traditions. The towns and cities are like ‘open museums’, each edifice offering a unique and intricate aesthetic, each a testament to diverse cultural influences and diverse periods of history. Nature and architecture have a unique relationship, seemingly inspired by each other, as if they were trying to to outdo each other with their beauty. Discover the beautiful colors, textures and flavors of this incredible culture and journey through the cities of the Silk Road and the lands of Alexander The Great with stunning original photography by Laziz Hamani.
Author : Wilfrid Blunt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015050027989
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Odyssey Publications
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015082736177
Travel & holiday.
Author : James Elroy Flecker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1915
Category : English poetry
ISBN : WISC:89099800773
Author : Caroline Eden,Eleanor Ford,Eleanor Smallwood
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-03
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9780857839992
Winner of the Guild of Food Writers Food and Travel Award 2017 'This is a book to delight food lovers, travel hounds and history buffs alike.' The Telegraph 'As an armchair traveler, I was led by Caroline Eden's firsthand account of journeys to the Uzbek city of Samarkand and other exotic destinations, then lured into the kitchen by Eleanor Ford's fine recipes' New York Times 'A particularly expansive and ambitious example of the genre. Imagine a Lonely Planet guide to Uzbekistan and beyond, with a hundred recipes.' LA Times 'I am LOVING it! So interesting to see so many familiar but also lesser known recipes! Beautiful pictures too! Love the styling! Love it!' Sabrina Ghayour Over hundreds of years, various ethnic groups have passed through Samarkand, sharing and influencing each other's cuisine and leaving their culinary stamp. This book is a love letter to Central Asia and the Caucasus, containing personal travel essays and recipes little known in the West that have been expertly adapted for the home cook. An array of delicious dishes will introduce the region and its different ethnic groups - Uzbek, Tajik, Russian, Turkish, Korean, Caucasian and Jewish - along with a detailed introduction on the Silk Road and a useful store cupboard of essential ingredients. Chapters are divided into Shared Table, Soups, Roast Meats & Kebabs, Warming Dishes, Pilavs & Plovs, Accompaniments, Breads & Doughs, Drinks and Desserts. 100 recipes are showcased, including Apricot & Red Lentil Soup, Chapli Kebabs with Tomato Relish, Rosh Hashanah Palov with Barberries, Pomegranate and Quince, Curd Pancakes with Red Berry Compote and the all-important breads of the region. And with evocative travel features like On the Road to Samarkand, A Banquet on the Caspian Sea and Shopping for Spices under Solomon's Throne, you will be charmed and enticed by this region and its cuisine, which has remained relatively untouched in centuries.
Author : Bernard Ollivier
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-14
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781510746916
Acclaimed journalist Bernard Ollivier continues his epic journey across Persia and Central Asia as he walks the length of the Great Silk Road. Walking to Samarkand is journalist Bernard Ollivier’s stunning account of the second leg of his 7,200-mile walk from Istanbul, Turkey, to Xi’an, China, along the Silk Road--the longest and perhaps most mythical trade route of all time. Picking up where Out of Istanbul left off, Ollivier heads out of the Middle East and into Central Asia, grappling not only with his own will to continue but with new, unforeseen dangers. After crossing the final mountain passes of Turkish Kurdistan, Ollivier sets foot in Iran, keen on locating vestiges of the silk trade as he passes through Persia’s modern cities and traditional villages, including Tabriz, Tehran, Nishapur, and the holy city of Mashhad. Beyond urban areas lie deserts: first Iran’s Great Salt Desert, then Turkmenistan’s forbidding Karakum, whose relentless sun, snakes, and scorpions pose continuous challenges to Ollivier’s goal of reaching Uzbekistan. Setting his own fears aside, he travels on, wonderstruck at every turn, borne by a childhood dream: to see for himself the golden domes and turquoise skies of Samarkand, one of Central Asia’s most ancient cities. But what Ollivier enjoys most are the people along the way: Askar, the hospitable gardener; the pilgrims of Mashhad; and his knights in shining armor, Mehdi and Monir. For, despite setting out alone, he comes to find that walking itself—through a kind of alchemy—surrounds him with friends and fosters fellowship. From the authoritarian mullahs of revolutionary Iran to the warm welcome of everyday Iranians—custodians of age-old, cordial Persian culture; from the stark realities of former Soviet republics to the region’s legendary bazaars—veritable feasts for the senses—readers discover, through the eyes of a veteran journalist, the rich history and contemporary culture of these amazing lands.
Author : James Elroy Flecker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2010-12-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781434428165
The Story of Hassan of Baghdad and How he Came to Make the Golden Journey to Samarkand, a play in five acts by James Elroy Flecker (1884-1915).
Author : Anonim
Publisher : National Textbook Company
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Uzbekistan
ISBN : 0844248525
Author : Jascha Golowanjuk
Publisher : Quartet Books (UK)
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Fiction
ISBN : WISC:89052017076
Author : Craig Murray
Publisher : Random House
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781780578262
When Craig Murray arrived in Uzbekistan to take up his post in 2002, he was a young ambassador with a brilliant career and a taste for whisky and women. But after hearing accounts of dissident prisoners being boiled to death and innocent people being raped and murdered by agents of the state, he started to question both his role and that of his country in so-called 'democratising' states. Following his discovery that the British government was accepting information obtained under torture, Murray could no longer maintain a diplomatic silence. When he voiced his outrage, Washington and 10 Downing Street decided he had to go. But Uzbekistan had changed the high-living diplomat and there was no way he was going to go quietly. In this candid and at times shocking memoir, Murray lays bare the dark and dirty underside of the War on Terror.
Author : Patrick O'Brian
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2008-12-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780393333169
Setting out with his rough seafaring uncle and an elderly archaeologist cousin after the deaths of his missionary parents, 1930s American teen Derrick joins a culturally lavish search for a cache of priceless Asian jade.
Author : Marco Buttino
Publisher : Viella Libreria Editrice
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-21T17:41:00+02:00
Category : History
ISBN : 9788833139142
Samarkand, located along the Silk Road, has a history that is often confused with a fabled image of the East. This book, however, deals with a real city, narrating the changes that took place while it was part of the USSR and in the period following, all the way up to the present. In Samarkand, the passage between these two eras reflects the broader transformation that affected Uzbekistan and the other Central Asian countries, which were internal colonies, first of Russia and then of the Soviet Union, before becoming independent states. Step by step, the reader enters the city, its various districts, private homes, public places, and hears the stories of diverse individuals and families. Based on archival records, interviews and photographs, the book traces the changes in cultures and ways of life in Samarkand over this period, and investigates the tensions of the post-Soviet years. The Russians vanished from the city they had colonised or guided through the years of Soviet “modernisation”, as did many populations that had been deported there during the Second World War, and various local minorities. The city experienced a period of profound crisis, was transformed in terms of the composition of its population, constructed a new national image, rewrote its history and finally emerged ready to receive tourists with their cameras.
Author : Joyce Morgan,Conrad Walters
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012-08-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780762787333
When a Chinese monk broke into a hidden cave in 1900, he uncovered one of the world’s great literary secrets: a time capsule from the ancient Silk Road. Inside, scrolls were piled from floor to ceiling, undisturbed for a thousand years. The gem within was the Diamond Sutra of AD 868. This key Buddhist teaching, made 500 years before Gutenberg inked his press, is the world’s oldest printed book. The Silk Road once linked China with the Mediterranean. It conveyed merchants, pilgrims and ideas. But its cultures and oases were swallowed by shifting sands. Central to the Silk Road’s rediscovery was a man named Aurel Stein, a Hungarian-born scholar and archaeologist employed by the British service. Undaunted by the vast Gobi Desert, Stein crossed thousands of desolate miles with his fox terrier Dash. Stein met the Chinese monk and secured the Diamond Sutra and much more. The scroll’s journey—by camel through arid desert, by boat to London’s curious scholars, by train to evade the bombs of World War II—merges an explorer’s adventures, political intrigue, and continued controversy. The Diamond Sutra has inspired Jack Kerouac and the Dalai Lama. Its journey has coincided with the growing appeal of Buddhism in the West. As the Gutenberg Age cedes to the Google Age, the survival of the Silk Road’s greatest treasure is testament to the endurance of the written word.
Author : Countess Alexandra Tolstoy
Publisher : Lyons Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Silk Road
ISBN : 1592282016
Four young Englishwomen retrace the ancient Silk Road--4,500 miles in eight months by horse and camel.