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Title Chasing the sea : being a narrative of a journey through Uzbekistan, including descriptions of life therein, culminating with an arrival at the Aral Sea, the world's worst man-made ecological catastrophe, in one volume / Tom Bissell.
Author Bissell, Tom, 1974-
Publication New York : Pantheon Books, [2003]
Copyright date ©2003
Edition First edition.
Description xxi, 388 pages : map ; 25 cm
Call # 915.8704 B
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 359-370) and index.
Subject Bissell, Tom, 1974- -- Travel -- Uzbekistan.
Environmental degradation -- Aral Sea Region (Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan)
Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Aral Sea Region (Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan)
Uzbekistan -- Description and travel.
Aral Sea Region (Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan) -- History.
Note Subtitle on cover: Lost among the ghosts of empire in central Asia
ISBN 0375421300 :
037572754X (pbk.) :

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