And also the magazine article about the natural disaster that is the aral sea that begat this book chasing the sea lost among the ghost of empire in central asia 2003 i doubted that i would ever read this book thinking it would be unlikely that i would develop an interest in central asia well since i am returning there for a second visit the first was five years ago in 2010 to . Chasing the sea lost among the ghosts of empire in central asia bissell tom isbn 9780375421303 kostenloser versand fur alle bucher mit versand und verkauf duch amazon. Chasing the sea lost among the ghosts of empire in central asia vintage departures bissell tom isbn 9780375727542 kostenloser versand fur alle bucher mit versand und verkauf duch amazon. Entertaining informative alternately heartbreaking and funny tom bissells chasing the sea lost among the ghosts of empire in central asia takes us all over uzbekistan where few care about going that is save msf and some hardy peace corps volunteers of which bissell informs us he wasnt having washed out of uzbekistan after only seven months of his own pc stint there this book made me long for bedtime every night and coffee every morning just to spend time trawling through the form. 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 uzbekistans striking culture and long history of violent subjugation by despots from jenghiz khan to joseph stalin alternately amusing and sobering this is a gripping portrait of a fascinating place and the debut of a