Chasing the Sea: Lost Among the Ghosts of Empire in Central Asia by Tom Bissell

Chasing the Sea: Lost Among the Ghosts of Empire in Central Asia

Tom Bissell

nonfiction history travel adventurous informative slow-paced

416 pages | first published 2003

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In 1996, Tom Bissell went to Uzbekistan as a naive Peace Corps volunteer. Though he lasted only a few months before illness and personal crisis forced him home, Bissell found himself entranced by this remote land. Five years later he returned to e...
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