It displays a huge geographic, ecological, economic, cultural, and linguistic range today, from the steppe zone in the north, the Caucasus mountains in the center, to the highlands of today's ...

The book’s other protagonist is the steppe itself. McConnell’s photos ... with the detritus of space travel and scarred with open-pit coal mines. At times, the otherworldly scenes evoke ...

Astana, Kazakhstan, is a city of the vast, wide-open steppe, born from the imagination of people who have no limitations of space. Buildings are thrown across the land like giant dice ...