A Carpet Ride to Khiva: Seven Years on the Silk Road (HARDBACK)

A unique, beautiful and moving account of seven years living in the remote Uzbek desert. 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, mosques and minarets of the walled city of Khiva, a remote desert oasis…

A Carpet Ride to Khiva: Seven Years on the Silk Road (PAPERBACK)

Chris Alexander originally travelled to Khiva, a remote walled city in Uzbekistan on the route of the ancient Silk Road, to write a guidebook. But he stayed, mesmerized by a world of silk and forgotten 15th-century carpet designs – discovering indigo blue, madder red, pomegranate gold and the subtle shades of life in a desert oasis.  Alexander’s entrancing travelogue sees him str…

A Carpet Ride to Khiva: Seven Years on the Silk Road (EPUB)

Chris Alexander originally travelled to Khiva, a remote walled city in Uzbekistan on the route of the ancient Silk Road, to write a guidebook. But he stayed, mesmerized by a world of silk and forgotten 15th-century carpet designs – discovering indigo blue, madder red, pomegranate gold and the subtle shades of life in a desert oasis.  Alexander’s entrancing travelogue sees him s…

A Carpet Ride to Khiva: Seven Years on the Silk Road (EBOOK: PDF)

Chris Alexander originally travelled to Khiva, a remote walled city in Uzbekistan on the route of the ancient Silk Road, to write a guidebook. But he stayed, mesmerized by a world of silk and forgotten 15th-century carpet designs – discovering indigo blue, madder red, pomegranate gold and the subtle shades of life in a desert oasis.  Alexander’s entrancing travelogue sees him s…