Description

Large format hardcover, folio sized volume bound in black boards which are lettered in gold on spine and front cover, in publisher’s pictorial dust-jacket. 200 pages. Contains an extensive list of titles for further reading and an index. Foreword by Erlan Idrissov, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Profusely illustrated throughout with color photographs and 15 maps, including end-papers. Stated first edition, first printing with no other printings listed. A compilation of eleven chapters by expert contributors on the history and people of Kazakhstan from prehistory through the fall of the Soviet empire and the challenges facing a newly sovereign nation in the 21st-century. No previous ownership marks. A clean, tight, fresh and unmarked copy, pristine and like new. Fine in a fine dust-jacket. Priority and International orders will require additional postage, calculated as close to actual cost as possible.