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Vambery, Arminius

Sketches in Central Asia, Additional Chapters on My Travels, Adventures, and on the Ethnology of Central Asia

1868

195,52 €

Horizon Books

(Toronto, Canadá)

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Año de publicación
1868
Lugar de impresión
Philadelphia, London. J. B. Lippincott; Wm. H. Allen
Autor
Vambery, Arminius
Edición
First American edition.
Materia
Travel - Asia
Idiomas
Inlgés
Primera edición

Descripción

8vo [22 x 15 cm]; viii, 444 pp. original brown cloth, spine faded but gilt title lettering clear, short tear at spine end, bookplate of E. H. Freeman on endpaper, free endpaper with hole, but a clean very good copy. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. The author meant this book as a supplement to his Travels in Central Asia, but is independent on its own, covering Dervishes, Hadjis, Turkomans, caravans, tent life, the court of Khiva, housing, food, dress, Kungrat, Tartars, Bokhara, the slave trade and slave life, Turkestan, Tuanian and Iranian peoples, Central Asian literature, England and Russian rivalry in Central Asia, etc. Yakushi V09. Sykes (History of Exploration) 246: 'a celebrated journey in disguise across Persia to Bokhara and Samarkand'. His description of the peoples and their customs is most interesting.