Paradise Rivers

Carolyn Drake

Orion/Pulitzer Center/Steppe

The city of Khujand was established by Alexander the Great on the banks of the Syr Darya 2,500 years ago. The cityscape is viewed through a dusty and cracked window of the Leninabad hotel. You can see the river in the upper left through this hotel window

Carolyn Drake, "Paradise Rivers," in POYi Archive, Item #43249, http://archive.poy.org/items/show/43249 (accessed June 7, 2025).