Letters from the Land of Fear: Intimacy, Beauty and Death in Central Asia Volume 5

by Calvin White

For 11 months Calvin White worked for Doctors Without Borders as a mental health specialist in the off-the-radar region of Karakalpakstan in western Uzbekistan. Unlike the higher profile emergency situations which draw that international humanitarian organization's attention, the milieu for White's mission was the quiet, slow death in an epidemic of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis. As White's forward says: This is a small story about small people...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1771830115
• ISBN13: 9781771830119
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Miroland
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"