Ebook: In Search of Kazakhstan: the Land that Disappeared

Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Map; Prologue; 1. Apples Are from Kazakhstan; 2. My Neighbour, Trotsky; 3. National Treasures; 4. City of the Plain and the Vanishing Sea; 5. The Explorer, the Beatle and New Money; 6. Love and Death in Old Semipalatinsk; 7. Pickled Tomatoes from the Gulag; 8. The Howling of Wolves; Epilogue.;The only thing most people know about Kazakhstan is that it is homeland to Borat - and he isn't even real. Actually this vast place - the last unknown inhabited country in the world - is far more surprising and entertaining. For one thing, it is as varied as Europe, combining stupendous wealth, grinding poverty, exotic traditions and a mad dash for modernity. Crisscrossing a vanished land, Christopher Robbins finds Eminem by a shrinking Aral Sea, goes eagle-hunting, visits the scene of Dostoyevsky's doomed first love, takes up residence beside one-time neighbour Leon Trotsky and visits some of.