Chasing the Sea

Tom Bissell

2003426 pages~~★★★★☆~~ 4.0 · 1Politics & Power

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In 1960, the Aral Sea was the size of Lake Michigan: a huge body of water in the deserts of Central Asia. By 1996, when Tom Bissell arrived in Uzbekistan as a naive Peace Corps volunteer, disastrous Soviet irrigation policies had shrunk…

AuthorTom Bissell

Year2003

Length426 pages

ISBN9780375421303

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