Chasing the Sea: Lost Among the Ghosts of Empire in Central Asia by Tom Bissell

Chasing the Sea: Lost Among the Ghosts of Empire in Central Asia

Tom Bissell

416 pages first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction history travel adventurous informative slow-paced
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In 1996, Tom Bissell went to Uzbekistan as a naive Peace Corps volunteer. Though he lasted only a few months before illness and personal crisis forced him home, Bissell found himself entranced by this remote land. Five years later he returned to e...

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Moods

adventurous 100%
informative 100%
challenging 66%
reflective 66%
funny 33%
lighthearted 33%
sad 33%

Pace

slow 66%
medium 33%

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