A CARPET RIDE TO KHIVA
Language: English
Published by ICON BOOKS LTD, LONDON, 2010
- First Edition
- Signed
- Hardcover
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BOUND IN BLUE CLOTH HARDCOVERS, with bright silver titles to spine, this 2010 8vo FIRST EDITION IS SIGNED ON THE TITLE PAGE BY THE AUTHOR. X111/334pp WITH 17 COLOUR PLATES, 2X MAPS AND 14 CHAPTERS PLUS EPILOGUE. SOMETHING OF ADVENTURE WHICH INVOLVED STUDYING CARPET DESIGN AND FORGETTING HIS INTENTION TO WRITE A GUIDE BOOK. TRAVELLING WITH A PARROT AND A CAT ALEX WRITES OF RIOTS, DRUGS AND CARPET DYES, AND FOUND A PROFOUND FRIENDSHIP. A MOST ENTERTAINING BOOK SET IN AN ANCIENT WORLD EXISTING SOMEWHERE BETWEEN MARX AND MOHAMMED. CONDITION VG/VG.
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- Title
- A CARPET RIDE TO KHIVA
- Author
- CHRISTOPHER ASLAN ALEXANDER
- Publisher
- ICON BOOKS LTD, LONDON
- Publication year
- 2010
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Signed
- Signed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1848311257
- ISBN 13
- 9781848311251
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Item weight
- 1 kilogram
- Dimensions
- 8vo
The Silk Road conjures images of the exotic and the unknown. Most travellers simply pass along it. Brit Chris Alexander chose to live there. Ostensibly writing a guidebook, Alexander found life at the heart of the glittering madrassahs, mosques and minarets of the walled city of Khiva - a remote desert oasis in Uzbekistan - immensely alluring, and stayed.
Immersing himself in the language and rich cultural traditions Alexander discovers a world torn between Marx and Mohammed - a place where veils and vodka, pork and polygamy freely mingle - against a backdrop of forgotten carpet designs, crumbling but magnificent Islamic architecture and scenes drawn straight from "The Arabian Nights". Accompanied by a large green parrot, a ginger cat and his adoptive Uzbek family, Alexander recounts his efforts to rediscover the lost art of traditional weaving and dyeing, and the process establishing a self-sufficient carpet workshop, employing local women and disabled people to train as apprentices.
A Carpet Ride to Khiva sees Alexander being stripped naked at a former Soviet youth camp, crawling through silkworm droppings in an attempt to record their life-cycle, holed up in the British Museum discovering carpet designs dormant for half a millennia, tackling a carpet-thieving mayor, distinguishing natural dyes from sacks of opium in Northern Afghanistan, bluffing his way through an impromptu version of "My Heart Will Go On" for national Uzbek TV and seeking sanctuary as an anti-Western riot consumed the Kabul carpet bazaar. It is an unforgettable true travel story of a journey to the heart of the unknown and the unexpected friendship one man found there.
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