Tom Fleming went to Uzbekistan as a forty-year-old Peace Corps volunteer. He was a fish out of water, an infidel in a Muslim land, teaching AIDS prevention and sex education in one of the most conservative regions of Central Asia.

With humor and poignancy, Taxi to Tashkent examines a nation of which little is known about in the West. Instead of a land rife with Islamic extremists as portrayed in the Western media, Fleming meets blue-eyed Muslims who dance to Shania Twain, and where shop-owners break into applause at the mention of America. The author travels throughout Uzbekistan, and explores the Silk Route cities of Bukhara and Samarkand. Taxi to Tashkent describes a little-known corner of the world, and explores the history, culture, and politics of an enigmatic, turbulent nation.

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