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About Daniel Metcalfe

Daniel Metcalfe is a writer and, specialising in Central Asia and Eastern Europe

Articles by Daniel Metcalfe

Monday 16th August

Dreaming of the sea, or a holiday in Moynaq

Daniel Metcalfe, 16 August 2010
Daniel Metcalfe's book ‘Out of Steppe’ describes his journey through Central Asia. In this excerpt he describes the Karakalpak landscape around the Aral Sea. The Soviet tourist destination, previously the centre of a successful fishing industry, is now depopulated, polluted by the chemicals used to prop up the failing cotton industry and by a landscape of devastation and desperation.
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