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Ships in the Desert
Ships in the Desert | Jeff Fearnside
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In this linked essay collection, award-winning author Jeff Fearnside analyzes his four years as an educator on the Great Silk Road, primarily in Kazakhstan. Peeling back the layers of culture, environment, and history that define the country and its people, Fearnside creates a compelling narrative about this faraway land and soon realizes how the local, personal stories are, in fact, global stories. Fearnside sees firsthand the unnatural disaster of the Aral Sea -- a man-made environmental crisis that has devastated the region and impacts the entire world. He examines the sometimes controversial ethics of Western missionaries, and reflects on personal and social change once he returns to the States. Ships in the Desert explores universal issues of religious bigotry, cultural intolerance, environmental degradation, and how a battle over water rights led to a catastrophe that is now being repeated around the world.
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SqueakyChu
Ships in the Desert | Jeff Fearnside
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This. Exactly this. 😢 (Should read “let alone formulate” not “let along formulate” - Oops!)

SqueakyChu This was a fabulous book of essays. Highly recommended! 2y
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SqueakyChu
Ships in the Desert | Jeff Fearnside
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This is my chance to not only learn about the devastating results of disregard for caring for the earth, but also an opportunity to learn a bit about the geography of the “Stans” (those countries in the former Soviet Union whose names end in “stan”.) So far the scenario set by author Jeff Fearnside of the once thriving fishing community on the Aral Sea bordering both #Kazakhstan and #Uzbekistan is pretty bleak.

BarbaraBB Such an interesting area, the Stans. 2y
SqueakyChu @BarbaraBB That‘s one reason I was happy to receive this book. I know next to nothing about those countries. 2y
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