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A Carpet Ride to Khiva opens the door to the closed world of the remote Uzbek desert(18/12/2009)
Chris Alexander's debut book, A Carpet Ride to Khiva, offers an evocative new voice that opens the door to a closed world - showing us how different life is for people in Uzbekistan but just as interestingly, our similarities across the cultural divide. This young man settled in Khiva in Uzbekistan and established a UNESCO-supported carpet workshop using traditional weaving techniques and local weavers from the female and disabled local population, ancient Persian manuscripts as inspiration ... [more]
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