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 /5(). 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/5(). Title A carpet ride to Khiva: seven years on the Silk Road / Christopher Aslan Alexander. Added Corporate Author ebrary, Inc. Imprint London: Icon Books,
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He was kicked out as part of an anti-Western purge, and took a year in Cambridge to write A Carpet Ride to Khiva. Chris then spent three years in the Pamirs mountains of Tajikistan, training yak herders to comb their yaks for their cashmere-like down. 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. A Carpet Ride to Khiva book. Read 61 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Most travelogues chart a journey, but in this case it is th.
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