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092 _a915.804
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049 _aNFGA
100 1 _aFearnside, Jeff,
_eauthor.
240 1 0 _aEssays.
_kSelections
245 1 0 _aShips in the desert /
_cJeff Fearnside.
263 _a2208
264 1 _aSanta Fe, NM :
_bSFWP,
_c[2022]
300 _a118 pages :
_bmap ;
_c22 cm
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references.
505 0 _aItam -- Ships in the desert -- The missionary position : personal exploration of the politics of persuasion in Central Asia -- More than tenge and tiyn -- Place as self -- View from a bridge -- Postoyanstvo pamyati (The persistence of memory).
520 _a"In this linked essay collection, award-winning author Jeff Fearnside analyzes his four years as an educator on the Great Silk Road, primarily in Kazakhstan. Peeling back the layers of culture, environment, and history that define the country and its people, Fearnside creates a compelling narrative about this faraway land and soon realizes how the local, personal stories are, in fact, global stories. Fearnside sees firsthand the unnatural disaster of the Aral Sea-a man-made environmental crisis that has devastated the region and impacts the entire world. He examines the sometimes controversial ethics of Western missionaries, and reflects on personal and social change once he returns to the States. Ships in the Desert explores universal issues of religious bigotry, cultural intolerance, environmental degradation, and how a battle over water rights led to a catastrophe that is now being repeated around the world"--
_cProvided by publisher.
600 1 0 _aFearnside, Jeff
_xTravel
_zAsia, Central.
650 0 _aAmericans
_zAsia, Central.
651 0 _aAsia, Central
_xDescription and travel.
_9367953
651 0 _aSilk Road
_xDescription and travel.
_961975
994 _aC0
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