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035 _a(OCoLC)1306527412
041 1 _aeng
_hger
092 _a947.7086
_bM952
049 _aNFGA
100 1 _aMühling, Jens,
_d1976-
_eauthor.
240 1 0 _aSchwarze Erde.
_lGerman
245 1 0 _aBlack earth :
_ba journey through Ukraine /
_cJens Mühling ; translated from the German by Eugene H. Hayworth.
250 _aFirst paperback edition.
264 1 _aLondon :
_bArmchair Traveller, an imprint of Haus Publishing,
_c2022.
300 _axxi, 295 pages :
_bmap ;
_c20 cm
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier
520 _a"An in-depth exploration of Ukraine through encounters with the many different people who live there. 'Will someone pay for the spilled blood? No. Nobody.' Mikhail Bulgakov composed this ominous and prophetic phrase in Kiev amid the turmoil of the Russian civil war. Since then, Ukrainian borders have shifted constantly, and its people have suffered numerous military foreign interventions. Ukraine has only existed as an independent state since 1991, and what exactly it was before then is controversial among its people as well as its European neighbors. In Black Earth: A Journey through the Ukraine, journalist and celebrated travel writer Jens Mühling takes readers across the country amid the ousting of former president Viktor Yanukovych and the Russian annexation of Crimea. Mühling delves deep into daily life in Ukraine, narrating his encounters with Ukrainian nationalists and old communists, Crimean Tatars and Cossacks, smugglers, and soldiers. Black Earth connects all these stories to convey an unconventional and unfiltered view of Ukraine, a country at the crossroads of Europe and Asia and the center of countless conflicts. In this paperback edition, a new preface is included that takes into account recent developments up to the 2022 war between Russia and Ukraine"--Amazon.com.
500 _aOriginally published under the title Schwarze Erde, copyright ©2016 by Rowohlt Verlag GmbH, Reinbek bei Hamburg.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references.
651 0 _aUkraine
_xHistory
_y1991-
_9318175
651 0 _aUkraine
_xPolitics and government
_y1991-
_9282655
651 0 _aUkraine
_xSocial life and customs.
700 1 _aHayworth, Eugene H.,
_etranslator.
994 _aC0
_bNFG
999 _c361823
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