An edition of A Carpet Ride to Khiva (2010)

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An edition of A Carpet Ride to Khiva (2010)

A Carpet Ride to Khiva

seven years on the Silk Road

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  • 2 Want to read

Chris Alexander originally travelled to Khiva, a remote walled city in Uzbekistan on the route of the ancient Silk Road, to write a guidebook. But he stayed, mesmerized by a world of silk and forgotten 15th-century carpet designs -- discovering indigo blue, madder red, pomegranate gold and the subtle shades of life in a desert oasis. Alexander's entrancing travelogue sees him stripped naked at a former Soviet youth camp, crawling through silkworm droppings, tackling a carpet-thieving mayor, distinguishing natural dyes from sacks of opium in Northern Afghanistan, bluffing his way through My Heart Will Go On for Uzbek TV and seeking sanctuary as an anti-Western riot consumed the Kabul carpet bazaar. The result is an unforgettable true story of a journey to the heart of the unknown. - Publisher.

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Language
English

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Subjects

Social life and customs, Homes and haunts, Embroidery, Carpets, Khiva (uzbekistan), history, Asia, central, social life and customs
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A Carpet Ride to Khiva: seven years on the Silk Road
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Table of Contents

The walled city of Khiva
A home by the harem
The madrassah
From calligraphy to carpet
Worms that changed the world
Madder from Mazar
Bukharan cunning
The dawn sweepers
A carpet called Shirin
Navruz and new beginnings
Warp and weft
Signed with a pomegranate
Carpet of corpses
My mother's friend the warlord
Epilogue : September 2009
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Edition Notes

Published in
London

Classifications

Library of Congress
DK949.5.K47 A44 2010, DK949.5, DK949.5.K45 A44 2010

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Pagination
xiv, 334 p., [8] p. of plates
Dimensions
23 x x centimeters

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL25370053M
ISBN 10
1848311494
ISBN 13
9781848311497
LCCN
2010474669
OCLC/WorldCat
619938538

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL16697524W

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