“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”

DR SEUSS

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Forgotten legends of the Great Silk Road PURCHASE NOW!  The legends enclosed in this album are more than just amusing stories once told by imaginative souls in less imaginative coffee houses of Central Asia to while away the time. True they make for fascinating reading and reveal much about the time of the great Emir Timur and of the Silk Road. But these are tales that have been passed down from generation to generation in Central Asia and indeed have been disseminated across the world by the ancient travelers. Each time the stories have twisted and turned and been changed to suit the local taste and I will leave it to you to find parts of other stories hidden in these legends. You will see stories that remind of the great Greek myths from the West and the wise tales I have heard from the East. The characters, places and words change but the themes remain constant throughout and reveal to willing readers the magnificence and importance of Central Asia during the days of the Great Silk Road. We encourage you to read these stories with an open mind, lose yourself in the adventure and digest the wonderful individuals you will meet. Then go out and tell the stories to others, add in your own customs, traditions and creativity so that these stories, and their valuable lessons, remain part of our world history.

In the steppe near Tashkent they came upon a never-ending ladder with wooden rungs and iron rails and that stretched across the earth from horizon to horizon. (...) Whistling and thundering, a snake-like wonder hurtled past them, packed both on the inside and on top with infidels shouting and waving their hands. ‘The End of the World!’ thought both Mahmud-Hodja the Sunni and Djebral the Shiite.

UNKNOWN SANDS

Journeys Around the World's Most Isolated Country By John Kropf

 As an independent country strategically located between the hot spots of Afghanistan and Iran, with one of the planet's largest natural gas reserves, Turkmenistan remains virtually unknown to the outside world. Unknown Sands penetrates this remote and harsh land. Turkmenistan was once the world's most feared territory. Since the time of the Mongols, the nomadic tribes of its vast desert wasters were deemed ungovernable. Russians and Persians were captured as slaves and carried off by the fierce Turkmen. This is a personal story that blends two years of adventure with Turkmenistan's tumultuous history to present an intriguing profile of the country and its people. This former Soviet territory offers a target-rich environment for the unusual including a surreal cult of Presidential personality, ancient ruins of the Silk Road, and a unique, mystical brand of Islam. With no current literature available, this book can be expected to feed the growing appetite for information on this increasingly important country and could be well positioned should events there change.