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UNINA9910457090603321 |
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Autore |
Lawless Jill |
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Titolo |
Wild east [[electronic resource] ] : travels in the new Mongolia / / Jill Lawless |
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Toronto, : ECW Press, 2000 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-53698-2 |
9786612536984 |
1-55490-489-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (246 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Electronic books. |
Mongolia Description and travel |
Mongolia Social life and customs |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Stranger Than Paradise -- The Outsiders -- The Nomad and the Carpetbagger -- Back to the Future -- The School for Scandal -- The Four Seasons -- Young, Wild, and Free -- The Adventurers -- Ghost Towns -- The King of the Tabloids -- A Hearty Meal -- A Stiff Drink -- The Three Manly Sports -- The Space Invaders -- The Falcon and the Parrot -- The Abandoned Monastery -- How the Mongols Got Their Names Back -- The Border -- The End of the Line. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Jill Lawless arrived in Mongolia in the late 1990's to find a country waking from centuries of isolation, at once rediscovering its heritage as a nomadic and Buddhist society and simultaneously discovering the western world. The result is a land of fascinating, bewildering contrasts: a vast country where nomadic herders graze their sheep and yaks on the steppe, it also has one of the world's highest literacy levels and a burgeoning high-tech scene. While trendy teenagers rollerblade amid the Soviet apartment blocks of Ulaanbaatar and dance to the latest pop music in nightclubs... |
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