Waiting for Winter to End: An Extraordinary Journey Through Soviet Central Asia

by Georgie Anne Geyer (Author)

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  Hardcover
  1994

  $3.29

  A woman travelling mostly alone through the heart of Muslim Central Asia is bound to encounter some unusual situations. Georgie Anne Geyer experienced her share in Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan, Uzbekistan, Tatarstan and Azerbaijan. She also learned a few things about a resource-rich region that will become more and more important for the United States. This book is an account of her adventures in these mysterious former Soviet republics: part-Third World travelogue and part history. Georgie Anne Geyer is the author of Guerilla Prince: The Real Story of the Rise & Fall of Fidel Castro and Buying the Night: The Autobiography of a Woman Foreign Correspondent .