Choose between a signed copy with original elastic band or an unsigned one missing the band
Both copies are first editions from 2013 and come with a signed and dated print
About copy with elastic band
First edition of Two Rivers by Carolyn Draken (2013)
First impression
Limited to 700 copies
Signed and dated by Carolyn Drake to front end page
Small format hardback in fine condition
No markings to book
Comes with original green elastic band, a signed and dated original print and a booklet
Print size: approx 16 x 11cm ; Signed and dated on verso by Carolyn Drake
Pages of book and booklet are clean
Binding firm
About copy without elastic band
First edition of Two Rivers by Carolyn Draken (2013)
First impression
Limited to 700 copies
Small format hardback in near fine condition
Comes with a signed and dated original print and a booklet
Print size: approx 16 x 11cm ; Signed and dated on verso by Carolyn Drake
Some toning to extremities to boards and spine
Slight toning to extremities of pages as well, otherwise, pages clean, binding firm
Please not there isnogreen rubber band that originally came with the book
Please note there are slight markings of where the elastic band has been to back endpapers
About
The Amu Darya and Syr Darya rivers stretch from the western edge of China across Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan, spanning a distance of 2,500km. They are the lifeblood of the vast, landlocked region between China, Russia, Iran and Afghanistan. The Greeks knew the two rivers as the Oxus and the Jaxartes. An islamic hadith holds that they are two of the four rivers that flow into Paradise. The Silk Route linking China to Europe followed the paths of the rivers.
After the Soviet government took control of the region in 1917, it began one of the most ambitious engineering projects in world history, diverting massive quantities of water from the rivers to bring cotton production to an area too arid to sustain such a thirsty crop. Such large quantities of water were diverted that the Aral Sea, once the worlds fourth largest lake, began to disappear. When Moscows rule ended in 1991, five new Central Asian nations appeared, burdened with failing economies, incongruous borders, and a growing environmental crisis. The Aral Sea has nearly vanished, replaced by salt and dust storms.
Two Rivers follows the rivers from their endpoints to the source. It is a photographic record of a place where political allegiances, ethnic bonds, national borders, and physical geography are in constant flux; a vast ecosystem where nature, money, and history are intertwined.
