Mother of the World

Reclaiming Turkmenistan from the margins of global attention, Hein offers a lively history of the Mother of the World and its people.These days, its rare for news items to come out of Turkmenistan. It can be easy for us to assume that the country was always isolated, quirky or even irrelevant. But its real history paints a wildly different picture.Turkmenistans desert-dominated landscape has been ...