In Search of Kazakhstan: The Land that Disappeared - Christopher Robbins
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 In Search of Kazakhstan: The Land that Disappeared - Christopher Robbins
Newest Review: ... Kazakhstan is heading up for the same size as the whole of Western Europe. He briefly mentions the infamous Borat - and how ... more  ... we have all bought in to his image as Kazakhstan is such an unknown quantity. It wouldn't have worked half as well had we known about Kazakhstan, or for that matter, if it had been fictitious country. And then he takes up his first challenge of finding wild orchards, to look into one fact from the American - that apples are in fact from Kazakhstan.
As the book progresses, Robbins manages to secure several audiences with the President of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev, and tours extensively. He gets a glimpse a...more |
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Pages: 304, Paperback, Profile Books Last Update 30.11.2009 05:47
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In Search of Kazakhstan: The Land that Disappeared - Christopher Robbins: Not just for Borat (906 words)
by - written on 17/11/09 (Very useful, 137 readings)
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My reading habits vary vastly from sci-fi, comedy and international fiction, to a wide range of non-fiction books. I spotted this one on the shelf at work a few weeks back and thought it looked quite interesting. Having grown up at the end of the Cold War, my knowledge mainly consists of walls and countries collapsing, but not much about what happened on the other side up to this point. Kazakhstan is one of those countries that we in the west still know relatively little about, and that is how this book begins. Author, Christopher Robbins, begins by explaining how his idea for the book came about purely by chance. He was on a flight to Moscow, and was ... Read the complete review
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