Kapoot: The Narrative of a Journey from Leningrad to Mount Ararat in Search of Noah's Ark

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The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. The book is a personal account of Wells' journey from Leningrad to Mount Ararat in Turkey, where he hopes to find the remains of Noah's Ark. That includes losses in countries such as Nigeria, where 41 percent of refrigerators were nonfunctional, and Ethiopia, which had about 30 percent of its cold-chain equipment go kaput. Recent Examples on the Web Now all three of those competitors are kaput, felled by runs on deposits during the biggest banking crisis in a decade and a half.

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