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In Search of Kazakhstan

Christopher Robbins

The only thing most people know about Kazakhstan is that it is homeland to Borat - and he isn't even real. Actually this vast place - the last unknown inhabited country in the world - is far more surprising and entertaining. For one thing, it is as varied as Europe, combining stupendous wealth, grinding poverty, exotic traditions and a mad dash for modernity.

Crisscrossing a vanished land, Christopher Robbins finds Eminem by a shrinking Aral Sea, goes eagle-hunting, visits the scene of Dostoyevsky's doomed first love, takes up residence beside one-time neighbour Leon Trotsky and visits some of the most beautiful, unspoilt places on earth.

  • Classification : Travel & Travel Writing
  • Pub Date : APR 10, 2008
  • Imprint : Profile Books
  • Page Extent : 304
  • Binding : PB
  • ISBN : 9781861971098
  • Price : INR 650
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Christopher Robbins

Christopher Robbins was born in 1946. He has won a number of awards for his investigative journalism for the Observer on topics such as world-wide smuggling the treatment of political prisoners in Franco's Spain and CIA involvement in political assassination including attempts on Fidel Castro which was developed into a book - "Assassin". He has travelled widely in Russia investigating the activities of the KGB.

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