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Out of Steppe
  • Published: 29 February 2012
  • ISBN: 9781448107308
  • Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 304
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Out of Steppe

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29 Feb 2012
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15 Mar 2010
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Exploring his life-long fascination with the Silk Road, Daniel Metcalfe travels alone through remote regions of Central Asia in search of some of its lost peoples.

Daniel Metcalfe journeys through the five 'stans, as well as Pakistan and Afghanistan, and brings to life the brilliant human tapestry they comprise - uniquely shaped by the immigrants, deportees and conquerors that have settled there. Revealing a Central Asia that is far removed from the home of Borat or the land of international terrorism, Metcalfe unlocks the secrets of this troubled region, glorying in its diversity and also lamenting the economic and cultural changes that threaten to eradicate some of its peoples...
  • Published: 29 February 2012
  • ISBN: 9781448107308
  • Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 304
Categories:

About the author

Daniel Metcalfe

Daniel Metcalfe was born in London in 1979. After graduating in Classics from Oxford University, he spent over a year in Iran and Central Asia, which inspired his first book, Out of Steppe: The Lost Peoples of Central Asia. It was shortlisted for the Banff Mountain Book Award 2009 and the Dolman Travel Award 2010. Daniel, who speaks Persian, Russian, Swedish and Portuguese, has written for the Economist, Guardian, Financial Times, Conde Nast Traveller and the Literary Review.
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