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With the grim determination of an unrepentant rocker, Larry Frolick sets off on a 12,000-mile trek across Central Asia, brooding over the fate of its lost civilizations. From Kiev, Crimean Tartary, and Moscow, through the nomadic homelands of Uzbekistan, Kyrgizstan, Tien-Shan, and finally into distant Mongolia and Siberia, he explores a continent on the brink of a meltdown, a strange world lit harshly by the red afterglow of the Soviet collapse. His vivid account opens the door to a crowd of unlikely strangers: Mafiosi flatheads, salt-mine campers, fractious archaeologists, a conceptual artist who uses fresh corpses in his window displays, the very last of three Romanov princesses, an inept Chinese secret agent, a relentless Uzbek glottal probologist, disgruntled e-mail swains - and above all, Larissa, the moody Eurasian beauty who "just stepped out of a novel in her impossibly pointy Italian shoes." With gleeful wit and a steely eye for detail, Frolick transports the reader to a world inhabited by a people burning with desire for something new to happen.

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• Full title: Grand Centaur Station: Unruly Living with the New Nomads of Central Asia
• Author: Larry Frolick, Steve Wilson
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 348
• EAN: 9780771047824
• ISBN: 0771047827
• ID: 11500955
• Publisher: MCCLELLAND & STEWART
• Weight: 567 g
• Dimensions: 226 × 152 × 28 mm
• Date of publishing: March 2004

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