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acknowledgments who illuminated so much about Russia that would otherwise have remained dark. His generosity, warmth, curiosity, bravery, and humor will remain a model to me for as long as I write and travel. Finally, a note to my future self: If your son, two months after meeting a girl, tells you he’s headed for a tiny island without electricity, running water, or a way off, with the girl and her brother, parents, cousins, aunts, and uncles, do not panic. It might turn out okay. Many thanks to George and Paula Krimsky for ensuring that it did, and for countless kindnesses large and small. But thanks to them most of all for raising an extraordinary daughter, without whom I would never have gone to Russia or written this book. The Geographer’s Library is for Alissa. So am I. 374
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Jon Fasman was born in Chicago and raised in Washington, D.C. He was educated at Brown and Oxford universities and has worked as a journalist in Washington, D.C., New York, Oxford, and Moscow. His writing has appeared in The Economist, The Times Literary Supplement, Slate, Legal Affairs, The Moscow Times, and The Washington Post. He is now a writer and editor for The Economist’s Web site and lives in London.
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THE ALEMBIC Is not our universe its
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That which is above is like to that
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Jon Fasman many years.” Crowley p
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Jon Fasman “Work. I worry that my
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Jon Fasman that became common pract
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Jon Fasman The skinny guy’s voice
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Jon Fasman afternoon sun made Auste
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Jon Fasman At first all I could hea
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Jon Fasman steelhead, good salmon i
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Jon Fasman 1995. Count two, August
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FERAHID’ S GOLDEN NEY Our gold is
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Jon Fasman books—a photograph tha
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Jon Fasman than Leninabad.” The r
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Jon Fasman and Firdausi (and, appar
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Jon Fasman tutor of Abu Ali ibn’S
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The father thereof is the Sun, the
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Jon Fasman there, too; I told Joani
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Jon Fasman that’s better. Here’
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FERAHID’ S SILVER NEY Hermes, Tho
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Jon Fasman 3. Mercury, often referr
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Jon Fasman anyway. Pls put them on
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Jon Fasman lights on inside. Pühap
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Jon Fasman “Not a fraud. An enthu
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THE ETHIOPIAN After many a summer d
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Jon Fasman They hate Mengistu, they
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Jon Fasman I asked Gebredan two nig
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It is the father of all works of wo
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Jon Fasman . . . by 6:40 the sun ha
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Jon Fasman “Not originally, but I
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Jon Fasman before. I put notices up
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XINJIANG’ S IVORY (EARTH) Earth:
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Jon Fasman I nodded. “How long?
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Jon Fasman of the Lena, where I can
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Jon Fasman children who have become
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Jon Fasman fellow in’—nothing l
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Jon Fasman Place of origin: The mat
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Jon Fasman Professor Jadid sighed a
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Jon Fasman “Thank you.” “Now,
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Jon Fasman As his passengers disemb
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Jon Fasman father makes in five yea
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Jon Fasman In 1993 Wei Xiang, a gra
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Jon Fasman Fortunately, the ride ho
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Jon Fasman “Hello?” “Hi, Hann
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Jon Fasman hand down my face, and I
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Jon Fasman end of a long, fluoresce
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Jon Fasman day eighteen: “We miss
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Jon Fasman them into rentals, some
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Jon Fasman whole lot of patience or
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Jon Fasman rich. Anyway, Sickle als
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RAINBOW DUST AND PEACOCK’ S TAIL
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Jon Fasman morning when he strides
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Jon Fasman Date of manufacture (9a)
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Jon Fasman with butter and ketchup.
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Jon Fasman “Where was he born?”
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THE KAGHAN’ S CAGES (FIRE) The In
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Jon Fasman Abulfaz, who needed noth
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Jon Fasman pot’s clay walls warme
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Jon Fasman Though lost to the wider
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Jon Fasman your door and you don’
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Jon Fasman pick a reporter’s lock
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THE WHITE MEDIKO White is the color
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I have one particular request, and
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17 December 1989 To Rector Allham:
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does not indicate deceit, as the co
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One popular theory among Aubrey stu
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ooms; or rather, we lifted hundreds
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Jon Fasman of Art. Rabbi Adam Maise
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Jon Fasman known living relatives
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Jon Fasman The back stairs were ric
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