Russia in Central Asia in 1889 & the Anglo-Russian QuestionLongmans, 1889 - 477 Seiten |
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... journey which I had taken in the months of September and October 1888 , along the newly - constructed Transcaspian Rail- way , through certain of the Central Asian dominions of the Czar of Russia . Exigencies of space , however , and ...
... journey which I had taken in the months of September and October 1888 , along the newly - constructed Transcaspian Rail- way , through certain of the Central Asian dominions of the Czar of Russia . Exigencies of space , however , and ...
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... journey , taken under circumstances of exceptional advantage and ease , through a country , the interest of which to English readers consists no longer in its physical remoteness and impenetrability , but rather in the fact that those ...
... journey , taken under circumstances of exceptional advantage and ease , through a country , the interest of which to English readers consists no longer in its physical remoteness and impenetrability , but rather in the fact that those ...
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... journey without having made myself thoroughly acquainted with their opinions and researches ; nor have these pages been written without subsequent study of every available authority . The one distinguishing merit that I can fear- lessly ...
... journey without having made myself thoroughly acquainted with their opinions and researches ; nor have these pages been written without subsequent study of every available authority . The one distinguishing merit that I can fear- lessly ...
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... journey as soon as they can . Let them not be deterred by exaggerated accounts of the inhospitality of the region , or the hard- ships of the road . There is enough to repay them for any personal inconvenience or material discomfort ...
... journey as soon as they can . Let them not be deterred by exaggerated accounts of the inhospitality of the region , or the hard- ships of the road . There is enough to repay them for any personal inconvenience or material discomfort ...
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... journey - Previous travel in Central Asia - Foreign travellers on the Transcaspian Railway -Previous writers on the Transcaspian Railway - Justification for a new work - Varied interest of Central Asia - Political in- terest - Russian ...
... journey - Previous travel in Central Asia - Foreign travellers on the Transcaspian Railway -Previous writers on the Transcaspian Railway - Justification for a new work - Varied interest of Central Asia - Political in- terest - Russian ...
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Abdurrahman advance Afghan frontier Afghan Turkestan Afghanistan Akhal Alikhanoff already Amir Amu Daria Annenkoff army Asian Asiatic Askabad Baku Balkh banks Bokhara Bokhariots Britain British canals capital Caspian Caucasus Central Asia character Colonel commercial conquest cotton Czar desert distance district dominions Dushak East England English European favour feet Foreign fortress Geok Tepe Government hand Herat horses importance India Is-hak journey Kabul Kandahar Kerki Khan Khanate Khiva Khorasan Kizil Arvat Krasnovodsk Kush latter less MEDRESSE ment Merv Meshed miles military mosque mountains Murghab native oasis officers Orenburg Oxus pass Penjdeh Persia Petersburg political population pouds present province Quetta rails river roubles route ruins Russian Samarkand sand Sarakhs Shah Skobeleff soldiers station steppes stream successful supplies Syr Daria Tashkent Teharjui Tejend Tekke territory tion town trade Trans Transcaspian Railway traveller treaty troops Turko Turkoman Turkoman horse Uzun Ada Vide walls Zerafshan