Wild east [[electronic resource] ] : travels in the new Mongolia / / Jill Lawless

• Autore: Lawless Jill
• Pubblicazione: Toronto, : ECW Press, 2000
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (246 p.)
• Disciplina: 951.7/3
• Soggetto geografico: Mongolia Description and travel; Mongolia Social life and customs
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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...
• Altri titoli varianti: Travels in the new Mongolia
• Titolo autorizzato: Wild east
• ISBN: 1-282-53698-2; 9786612536984; 1-55490-489-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910457090603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II