UID:
almafu_9960117874602883
Format:
1 online resource (xvi, 564 pages, 7 unnumbered pages of plates) :
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illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white), digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
0-511-69713-9
Series Statement:
Cambridge library collection. Travel and exploration
Content:
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.
Note:
Also issued in print: 2010.
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Originally published: Cambridge: University Press, 1913.
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Includes index.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-108-01066-0
Language:
English
