impossible to ascertain how they make a living.

  • S. Zapotoczny
  • Ryszard Kapuscinski
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Publication date
March 2015

Abstract

It is a sad settlement- Muynak. It once lay in the spot where the beautiful, life-giving Amu Darya flowed into the Aral Sea, an extraordinary sea in the heart of a great desert. Today, there is neither river nor sea. In the town the vegetation has withered; the dogs have died. Half the residents have left, and those who stayed have nowhere to go. They do not work, for they are fishermen, and there are no fish... If there is no strong wind, people sit on little benches, leaning against the shabby and crumbling walls of their decrepit houses. It i

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