Bordered by Afghanistan, Iran, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, surrounded by mountains and a desert shore, this land is rich in history, in natural gas and in misery.
He'd had a dream in which some unseen force plucked the Albedo from the water and flung it onto a desert shore.
And the Labradors too have long deserted these shores, although I met one friendly Lab and a shaggy Newfoundland posted to welcome arriving cruise-ship passengers.
The shore is deserted, with an air pump the only sign of activity.
Hank Paul Danoo) appears to find himself on a desert island shore and is about to end it all, when Daniel Radcliffe's body is washed up.
I'm talking about the kind of hangovers that you and I know far better, the ones that begin with you washed up on the distant desert island shore of some stranger's mattress, folded into the foetal position like an accordion full of piss, phone dead, eyes hollowed out, grey city noon snarling past the window restrictors halfway up the high-rise.
This year, Yomiuri Shimbun is reporting that a record number of 89 vessels, either wrecked or deserted, have been identified near Japanese shores, according to the Tokyo coast guard.
Even less seemed to be happening Sunday evening, when the promenade, which looks out toward the Swiss shore and Lausanne, was nearly deserted.
According to legend, Dionysus found Ariadne asleep on the island's shore after she had been deserted by Theseus on his way home from having slain the Minotaur in Crete.
