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Fascinating...We can easily see [Glazebrook] fending off a murderous attacker...or standing before the slender jade tombstone of Tamerlane in Khiva."-Colman Andrews, Los Angeles Times"For fans of travel literature, there are few greater pleasures than to be guided through unknown lands by an empathetic, urbane traveler who points out subtle details of place and character and, with a storyteller's skill, seamlessly links them to a country's colorful history. This Philip Glazebrook does with elan....A Leisurely journey, rich in exquisitely rendered descriptions."-Luree Miller, Washington Post Book World"What I love most is Glazebrook's delightful blend of old-world romance with the present-day realities of Central Asia."-Diana Wells, The Traveller's Bookstore"I couldn't stop reading Journey to Khiva....In his entrancing book...Glazebrook has drawn us a long-overdue map of the legendary places of Central Asia."-Lawrence Millman, author of Last Places" Fascinating...We can easily see [Glazebrook] fending off a murderous attacker...or standing before the slender jade tombstone of Tamerlane in Khiva."-Colman Andrews, Los Angeles Times "For fans of travel literature, there are few greater pleasures than to be guided through unknown lands by an empathetic, urbane traveler who points out subtle details of place and character and, with a storyteller's skill, seamlessly links them to a country's colorful history. This Philip Glazebrook does with elan....A Leisurely journey, rich in exquisitely rendered descriptions."-Luree Miller, Washington Post Book World "What I love most is Glazebrook's delightful blend of old-world romance with the present-day realities of Central Asia."-Diana Wells, The Traveller's Bookstore "I couldn't stop reading Journey to Khiva....In his entrancing book...Glazebrook has drawn us a long-overdue map of the legendary places of Central Asia."-Lawrence Millman, author of Last Places Fascinating...We can easily see [Glazebrook] fending off a murderous attacker...or standing before the slender jade tombstone of Tamerlane in Khiva."-Colman Andrews, Los Angeles Times "For fans of travel literature, there are few greater pleasures than to be guided through unknown lands by an empathetic, urbane traveler who points out subtle details of place and character and, with a storyteller's skill, seamlessly links them to a country's colorful history. This Philip Glazebrook does with elan....A Leisurely journey, rich in exquisitely rendered descriptions."-Luree Miller, Washington Post Book World "What I love most is Glazebrook's delightful blend of old-world romance with the present-day realities of Central Asia."-Diana Wells, The Traveller's Bookstore "I couldn't stop reading Journey to Khiva....In his entrancing book...Glazebrook has drawn us a long-overdue map of the legendary places of Central Asia."-Lawrence Millman, author of Last Places Fascinating...We can easily see [Glazebrook] fending off a murderous attacker...or standing before the slender jade tombstone of Tamerlane in Khiva."-Colman Andrews, Los Angeles Times"For fans of travel literature, there are few greater pleasures than to be guided through unknown lands by an empathetic, urbane traveler who points out subtle details of place and character and, with a storyteller's skill, seamlessly links them to a country's colorful history. This PhilipGlazebrook does with elan....A Leisurely journey, rich in exquisitely rendered descriptions."-Luree Miller, Washington Post Book World"What I love most is Glazebrook's delightful blend of old-world romance with the present-day realities of Central Asia."-Diana Wells, The Traveller's Bookstore"I couldn't stop reading Journey to Khiva....In his entrancing book...Glazebrook has drawn us a long-overdue map of the legendary places of Central Asia."-Lawrence Millman, author of Last Places Fascinating...We can easily see �Glazebrook� fending off a murderous attacker...or standing before the slender jade tombstone of Tamerlane in Khiva."-Colman Andrews, Los Angeles Times"For fans of travel literature, there are few greater pleasures than to be guided through unknown lands by an empathetic, urbane traveler who points out subtle details of place and character and, with a storyteller's skill, seamlessly links them to a country's colorful history. This PhilipGlazebrook does with elan....A Leisurely journey, rich in exquisitely rendered descriptions."-Luree Miller, Washington Post Book World"What I love most is Glazebrook's delightful blend of old-world romance with the present-day realities of Central Asia."-Diana Wells, The Traveller's Bookstore"I couldn't stop reading Journey to Khiva....In his entrancing book...Glazebrook has drawn us a long-overdue map of the legendary places of Central Asia."-Lawrence Millman, author of Last Places
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Like every great literary traveler, Philip Glazebrook has the ability to surprise his readers, reflecting the spontaneity of a journey through dangerous and unfamiliar terrain. In May of 1990 Glazebrook began an adventure that quickly became a sojourn through space and time - covering four thousand miles and a gallop across the centuries. As Glazebrook demonstrates in his compelling narrative, the inhabitants of these remote lands were members of a proud, conquering civilization long before the Soviet state was ever a gleam in Lenin's eye. Despite a seven-decade rule emanating from Moscow, Glazebrook learns that memories of Tamerlane, the thirteenth-century Central Asian ruler whose kingdom stretched from the Mediterranean to the Ganges, remain fresh and vivid throughout the region. On the eve of his odyssey, Glazebrook is startled in his Moscow hotel room when a knife-wielding thief attacks him. The description of this assault is utterly harrowing and leaves the reader nearly as breathless as the author. Miraculously retaining his historical perspective, Glazebrook later recasts his account of the attack in the prose style of a Victorian traveler. He reflects on the dangers that nineteenth-century adventurers faced, compared with the jeopardy in which modern travelers find themselves today. This arresting juxtaposition, spanning two centuries, jolts the reader into a deeper understanding of the nature of travel in any era. His wounds patched up, and wiser in the ways of the Moscow underworld, Glazebrook heads for the fabled cities of Tashkent, Bokhara, Samarkand, and Khiva. Here he discovers that the long shadows cast by the Great Game, Britain and Russia's nineteenth-century Cold War,remain real and powerful. Following the traces of earlier travelers, the author conveys an intimate knowledge of their adventures, salting his narrative with excerpts from their diaries and books. Sketching memorable characters and dramatic incidents among his Asian hosts, Glaze. NOTA: El libro no está en español, sino en inglés.
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