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Carruthers, Douglas

Beyond the Caspian; A Naturalist in Central Asia

1949

151,34 €

Horizon Books

(Toronto, Canadá)

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Año de publicación
1949
Lugar de impresión
Edinburgh. Oliver and Boyd
Autor
Carruthers, Douglas
Edición
First edition.
Materia
Travel - Asia
Idiomas
Inlgés
Primera edición

Descripción

8vo [22 x 15 cm]; xx, 290 pp, 6 color plates from paintings including frontis, other plates from photos, illustrations from drwg, foldout colored map, bibliog, index. original cloth with gilt title lettering on spine and front cover, clean and fine copy in the remains of a dust jacket (chipped, large piece missing from front panel, but not price clipped). A picture of this book is available upon request by email. The author, gold medallist of the Royal Geographical society, explorer, naturalist, describes his travels and hunting over several years in the deserts and mountains of Russian Central Asia with much on the animals and birds of the region, some of which he found were new to science. He describes Bukhara, Samarkand, the inhabitants of ancient Farghana, the Pamirs, the Oxus, High Tartary, etc.
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