Taxi to Tashkent

This is a police state</br>This is a democracy</br>This is rot-gut vodka</br>This is $2 prostitutes</br>This is Peace Corps</br>This is good intentions</br>This is Ramadan</br>This is loyalty</br>This is power outages</br>This is corruption</br>This is the Silk Route</br>This is the former USSR</br>This is Uzbekistan</p>Tom Fleming went to Uzbekistan as a forty year old Peace Corps volunteer. He was a fish out of water an infidel in a Muslim land teaching AIDS prevention and sex education in the most conservative region of Central Asia.</P>With humor and poignancy <I>Taxi to Tashkent</I> portrays a land little known in the West. Instead of a nation rife with Islamic extremists as portrayed in the Western media Fleming discovers a land of Korean discos where blue eyed Muslims listen to Shania Twain and where shop owners break into applause at the mention of America.</P>Fleming travels throughout Uzbekistan from the ecological disaster site of the Aral Sea to the ancient Silk Route cities of Bukhara and Samarkand. <I>Taxi to Tashkent</I> describes a little-known corner of the world where nothing appears as it seems.</P>