Extreme Continental: Blowing Hot and Cold Through Central Asia

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	Extreme Continental: Blowing Hot and Cold Through Central Asia
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In journey that was both whimsical and historical, Giles Whittell followed the trail taken by Stephen Graham, a Scottish reporter for The Times of London in 1914, from the Caspian Sea to Siberia. As he made his way from Volgograd across central Asia to the towering peaks of the Altai Mountains, where China, Kirghizstan, Mongolia and Siberia meet, Whittell paused to jot down dramatic thumbnail sketches of place and scenery and humorous observations. A resilient and persistent traveler, Giles occasionally got off course, and at one point talked his way into watching a rocket launch at Baikonur, a once top-secret Soviet space station.