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Silk Road to Ruin: Why Central Asia is the Next Middle East
Part graphic novel travelogue, part tongue-in-cheek travel guide, this collection gathers the adventures of caustic cartoonist Ted Rall in the wild and woolly central Asian countries, a veritable powder keg sitting atop the oil the world will need tomorrow. The book combines articles with comics in chapters that relate Rall’s experiences retracing the legendary Silk Road, from the sublime history of China to the absurdity of the present-day petty dictatorships of the “The ’Stans,” to which the author had the temerity—or perhaps stupidity—to return, including once with a group of listeners on his radio show, on a dare. This always-lively compendium offers readers an exotic adventure, satire, and a fun way to find out more about an often overlooked part of the world that looms in importance with its immense, and immensely coveted, reserves of oil.
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Silk Road to Ruin: Why Central Asia is the Next Middle East
Part graphic novel travelogue, part tongue-in-cheek travel guide, this collection gathers the adventures of caustic cartoonist Ted Rall in the wild and woolly central Asian countries, a veritable powder keg sitting atop the oil the world will need tomorrow. The book combines articles with comics in chapters that relate Rall’s experiences retracing the legendary Silk Road, from the sublime history of China to the absurdity of the present-day petty dictatorships of the “The ’Stans,” to which the author had the temerity—or perhaps stupidity—to return, including once with a group of listeners on his radio show, on a dare. This always-lively compendium offers readers an exotic adventure, satire, and a fun way to find out more about an often overlooked part of the world that looms in importance with its immense, and immensely coveted, reserves of oil.
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Silk Road to Ruin: Why Central Asia is the Next Middle East

Silk Road to Ruin: Why Central Asia is the Next Middle East

by Ted Rall
Silk Road to Ruin: Why Central Asia is the Next Middle East

Silk Road to Ruin: Why Central Asia is the Next Middle East

by Ted Rall

Overview

Part graphic novel travelogue, part tongue-in-cheek travel guide, this collection gathers the adventures of caustic cartoonist Ted Rall in the wild and woolly central Asian countries, a veritable powder keg sitting atop the oil the world will need tomorrow. The book combines articles with comics in chapters that relate Rall’s experiences retracing the legendary Silk Road, from the sublime history of China to the absurdity of the present-day petty dictatorships of the “The ’Stans,” to which the author had the temerity—or perhaps stupidity—to return, including once with a group of listeners on his radio show, on a dare. This always-lively compendium offers readers an exotic adventure, satire, and a fun way to find out more about an often overlooked part of the world that looms in importance with its immense, and immensely coveted, reserves of oil.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781561638857
Publisher: N B M Publishing Company
Publication date: 04/01/2014
Edition description: Second edition
Pages: 320
Product dimensions: 6.20(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

About The Author
Ted Rall is one of the most widely syndicated political cartoonists in the United States, an award-winning graphic novelist, and a columnist and occasional war correspondent best known for his coverage of Afghanistan and Central and South Asia. He is a Pulitzer Prize finalist and two-time winner of the RFK Journalism Award. He is the author of 17 books, including Revenge of the Latchkey Kids and To Afghanistan and Back. He lives in East Hampton, New York.

Table of Contents

Preface vii

Introduction Ahmed Rashid ix

Foreword by the Author xi

I Lenin Lives! 24

II The Glory that was Turkmenbashi 38

III Checkpoint Madness 59

Graphic Novella: Beijing to Istanbul 1997 71

IV Tajiks Don't Live in Tajikistan 98

V Good Eats 111

Graphic Novella: Karakoram Highway 1999 119

VI Radicals, Repression and Revolution 141

Graphic Novella: Stan Trek 2000 165

VII High Anxiety 192

VIII A Good Day to Die 207

Graphic Novella: Turkmenistan 2000 223

IV Clash of the Titans 234

X Eco Hell 247

Graphic Novella: Tajikistan 2002 259

XI What is to Be Done? 281

XII Under the Sword Of Damocles 299

XII If You Go 313

Maps & Country profiles

Central Asia 19

Turkmenistan 57

Afghanistan 65

Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region 108

Uzbekistan 147

Kyrgyzstan 159

Tajikistan 213

Pipeline Routes 234

Kazakhstan 237

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