“In Search of Kazakhstan,” by Christopher Robbins
A chance encounter on an airplane sent author Christopher Robbins on an adventure through Kazakhstan. His new book, “In Search of Kazakhstan: The Land That Disappeared”, Robbins explores the country, meets its people, tries the food and learns the history of this country, the largest of the former Soviet Republics.
Christopher Robbins goes on a rip-roaring voyage of discovery to this mysterious land:
- He criss-crosses the vast steppe and mountain chains
- encounters nomads who hunt with golden eagles
- hears the Kazakh John Lennon play in a dusty desert town
- finds Eminem beside a shrinking Aral Sea
- feasts on sheep’s head and sushi with the country’s strongman president
- follows in the exiled footsteps of Trotsky, Solzhenitsyn and Dostoyevsky
- investigates the birthplace of the apple, the tulip and trousers
- and sees some of the most beautiful, unspoilt places on earth.
Book details:
Christopher Robbins
“In Search of Kazakhstan: The Land That Disappeared”
Profile Books Ltd
Publication Date: 24th May 2007
RRP £12.99
Paperback
ISBN 13: 978 186197 868 4
About the author:
Christopher Robbins is the author of five non-fiction books, including the award-winning “The Empress of Ireland”, which was acclaimed by Simon Callow ‘magnificent’ and William Boyd ‘a complete delight’, and was a Book of the Year in The Guardian, Times, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph, Daily Express, Observer and Sunday Times.