If (as I think) “Tazi” and “Saluki” are linguistic rather than biological distinctions, reflected where Arabic turns to the Turkic and Persian tongues, the title is redundant. The pics are not, and even clinal change admits some differences. Iranian tazi, stolen weeks ago, returned to its horse archer partner this week, a friend of a …
Tag: Silk Road
SIlk Road redux
From Dmitry Kosyrev, author of the Silk Road Trilogy, via Kickstarter: “My dear friends, Americans, a few Russians from Russia, all 111 of you, plus many more who will read my novels after their successful funding: “What you did in suport of my books, letting them be published in USA, means that somebody needs the …
We did it!
The Russian Life Silk Road Trilogy translation project is funded, in the eleventh hour– and it couldn’t have happened without Q Blog readers, who are at least a third of the 100 or so patrons (many first names only and not all up yet). Special thanks to Sari Mantila in Finland, who was my web …
Last nag & bleg
The Silk Road Trilogy translation, of course. I’ll be away with no computer for the last couple of days before the deadline. But all but 600 and a little dollars of the needed $15,000 has been raised, and it would be a shame to miss when we are this close…
Gratuitous Asian hounds again…
We have taigans as well as tazis and Arab salukis in NM. (courtesy of Shiri and the other LB) They still seem exotic. Taigans and tazis and salukis are relatives; all are Silk Road dogs, and, whether you think they came west or east they followed those tracks. Only 5 days to go, with about …
Only six days left…
..to fund the Russian life- Kickstarter Silk Road trilogy translation project, with $4300 to go, or all is in vain. I think Q readers may make up a majority now! Consider digging in a second or even a third time– we are!