Title A carpet ride to Khiva: seven years on the Silk Road / Christopher Aslan Alexander. Added Corporate Author ebrary, Inc. Imprint London: Icon Books, www.doorway.ru: A Carpet Ride to Khiva: Seven Years on the Silk Road () by Christopher Aslan Alexander: and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great prices. A Carpet Ride to Khiva sees Alexander being stripped naked at a former Soviet youth camp, crawling through silkworm droppings in an attempt to record their life-cycle, holed up in the British Museum discovering carpet designs dormant for half a millennia, tackling a carpet-thieving mayor, distinguishing natural dyes from sacks of opium in Northern Afghanistan, bluffing his way through an impromptu Estimated Reading Time: 4 mins.
A Carpet Ride to Khiva: Seven Years on the Silk Road by Christopher Aslan Alexander. This site uses cookies. I was hesitant to read this book, as my memories of Khiva are very personally ingrained, and I didn't agree with some of the activities of the organization that brought the author to Khiva. A Carpet Ride to Khiva.: Christopher Alexander. Icon Books Ltd, Jul 1, - Travel - pages. 3 Reviews. The Silk Road conjures images of the exotic and the unknown. Most travellers simply pass along it. Brit Chris Alexander chose to live there. Ostensibly writing a guidebook, Alexander found life at the heart of the glittering madrassahs. Chris Aslan Alexander: Christopher Aslan Alexander was born in Turkey and grew up in war-torn Beirut. After university he moved to Central Asia. While writing a guidebook about Khiva, he fell in love with this desert oasis boasting the most homogeneous example of Islamic architecture in the world, and stayed.
Christopher Aslan Alexander was born in Turkey and grew up in war-torn Beirut. After university he moved to Central Asia. While writing a guidebook about Khiva, he fell in love with this desert oasis boasting the most homogenous example of Islamic architecture in the world, and stayed. Chris is currently back in Central Asia. Christopher Alexander has written a most interesting account of his years in Khiva, a backwater town on the old Silk Road. The overall theme of the book - setting up carpet and silk weaving workshops despite having no experience in anything connected with such projects - is a great read in itself. ‘Sitting down to read A Carpet Ride to Khiva over the festive season was like entering an oasis of peace and quiet like the carpet patterns so intricately interwoven and linked, Alexander’s account of his seven years in Khiva gives us a feel for daily life looped and crisscrossed with weddings, corrupt officials, journeys in rickety buses, gossip at the looms, domestic violence and village hospitality, all of it centreing on the carpet project.’.
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