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| Source: Odyssey website. |
Odyssey has published An Illustrated History of Kazakhstan, a 200-page hardback by Hong Kong-based Jeremy Tredinnick which charts the country's long and complex history.
Released in November 2014, the book begins in prehistoric times and covers the colonisation of Central Asia by Imperial Russia as well as independence for the Central Asian states.
Many experts were invited to contribute to the book, including Zhaken Taimagambetov, a Professor in Prehistoric Archaeology and
Dean of the Department of History, Archaeology and Ethnology at the
Al-Farabi Kazakh
National University; Renato Sala and Jean-Marc Deom, archaeologists at the Laboratory of Geoarchaeology at the Al-Farabi
Kazakh National University; and Karl Baipakov, Director of the Institute of Archaeology of the Academy of Sciences of Kazakhstan.