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| | Amazon.ca: Tuva Or Bust: Books: Ralph Leighton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | Only Leighton would ultimately make the long-sought pilgrimage to Tannu Tuva, where he was serenaded with songs by ethnographer Ondar Daryma, who wages a "one-man crusade to preserve Tuvan culture." (A vinyl record of xoomei --Tuvan throat-singing in which one singer, incredibly, intones two melodies at once--comes as an insert with the book). |
 | | Tannu Tuva was once an independent country, but it became part of the Soviet Union in 1944. |
 | | Tuva, buried in the Asian heartland, was isolated, the Soviet Union was forbidding, and even basic information was hard to come by. |
| www.amazon.ca /Tuva-Bust-Ralph-Leighton/dp/0393320693 (2259 words) |
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