The Duab of Turkestan : a Physiographic Sketch and Account of Some Travels Paperback / softback
by W. Rickmer Rickmers
Part of the Cambridge Library Collection - Anthropology series
Paperback / softback
Description
W. Rickmer Rickmers (1873–1965) was a German explorer and mountaineer who visited and explored central Asia five times between 1894 and 1906.
This book provides an account of his travels in the area he calls Turkestan, which incorporates modern Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and south-west Kazakhstan, and was first published in 1913.
The region, which contains the ancient cities of Samarkand and Bukhara, had not been previously described in so much detail by a western European traveller.
Rickmers includes accounts of both these historic cities as well as describing the social life of the indigenous people, with a comprehensive survey of the geography of the region.
Richly illustrated with 207 maps and photographs, this volume provides an insight into the everyday life of the area before the upheavals of the Soviet era.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:596 pages, 2 Maps; 201 Halftones, black and white
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:26/08/2010
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- ISBN:9781108010665
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:596 pages, 2 Maps; 201 Halftones, black and white
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:26/08/2010
- Category:
- ISBN:9781108010665
