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Films to see
· Kyrgyzstan - the Spirit of Central Asia
(35 min). Produced by Touche-Ross Management Consultants,
London (1995); Tel. +44-171-9363000; Fax +44-171-5831198.
· Travel Documentary on Kyrgyzstan and
Uzbekistan (45 min). Produced by Pilot Film &
TV Productions Ltd., London (1995); Tel. +44-171-229-6071;Fax
· +44-171-229-0595.
· Karakol - Kyrgyzstan (15 min). An introduction
to its scenery and people; produced by Research
Triangle Institute and Equinox Video for USAID
(1996); Tel. +996-33922-22368.
BOOKS
· Extreme Continental, Giles Whittell,
London (1995)
· Central Asia, The Practical Handbook,
Giles Whittell; Cadogan Books Ltd.
· Cadogan Guide to Central Asia
· Bishkek Handbook - Inside and Out, Daniel
Prior; Accent, Bishkek (1995)
· Bishkek Guide 2000, The Times of Central
Asia, Bishkek (2000)
· Central Asia, John King; Lonely Planet
Publications, a travel survival kit, Australia
(1996)
· Zentralasien, Klaus Pander; DuMont cultural
travel guide (1996, German language)
· Trekking in Russia and Central Asia,
Frith Maier, Mountaineers Books
· The Law of Unintended Consequences, Tournament
of Shadows, The Great Game and the Race for Empire
in Central Asia; Karl E. Meyer and Shareen Blair
Brysac (1999)
· Forbidden Mountains, The Most Beautiful
Mountains in Russia and Central Asia; Paola Pozzolini
Sicouri and Vladimir Kopylov (1st edition: 1994)
· Chingiz Aitmatov and his Land, Photographs
by Alexander Fedorov, Maek Films (1997), book
(1999) ISBN 9967-9010-0-4
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· The Kyrgyz
Pattern, Bishkek "Akyl" (1998), Kyrgyzstan
ISBN 9967-01-007-XChingiz Aitmatov and Kyrgyzstan;
exhibition catalogue ("new documentary award
of photography", Boston, USA), by H. Klaus
Kuehn (e-mail: BlancFilm@aol.com)
· Jamilia; First Teacher; Mother's Field;
White Steamer; Farewell, Gulsary; Plakha And a
Day Lasts Longer than a Century (Snowstorm Station),
Chingiz Aitmatov
· The Hunter's Lament over an Abyss, Aitmatov/Mukhtar
Shakhanov (1996)
· "Manas", Painter Theodor Herzen's
version of the Manas epic (Text in English); Accent
Information Agency, Bishkek
· "China The Silk Routes" - Peter
Neville Hadley. - Cadogan Guides
Further Reading
· Only one good English translation of a representative
group of Manas poems exists: The Manas of Wilhelm
Radloff edited and translated by Arthur T Hatto.
· Manas; the Epic Vision of Theodor Herzen is a
dignified coffee-table book of illustrations of
the Kyrgyz folk epos.
· The novels of Chinghiz Aitmatov reveal Kyrgyz
life and culture. Look out for Jamila, The White
Steamship, Early Cranes and The Place of the Skull.
· Frith Maier's Trekking in Russia and Central Asia
is an unrivalled guide to the region's wild places.
· Philip Glazebrook's Journey to Khiva and Geoffrey
Moorhouse's Apples in the Snow; A Journey to Samarkand
(published in the US as On the Other Side; A Journey
Through Soviet Central Asia) weave history and contemporary
observation around tales of travel in Central Asia
on the eve of independence from the USSR.
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