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Tom Bissell

Tom Bissell

Chasing the lost sea

by Keith Taylor

posted 1/1/2004

In 2001 Tom Bissell, who describes himself as an "adventure journalist," was sent to Uzbekistan by Harper's to cover what has been described as the "greatest environmental disaster in the world": the disappearance of the Aral Sea. The book that grew out of that trip, Chasing the Sea: Lost among the Ghosts of Empire in Central Asia, is

 
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