$125 | Book Number: 8764 | Order / Enquire |
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$400 | Book Number: 23330 | Order / Enquire |
HUNTINGTON, Ellsworth. The Pulse of Asia A Journey in Central Asia Illustrating the Geographic Basis of History. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1907. First edition. Tall 8vo., orig. green cloth, (xxii), (416)pp. About fine. "This bok is the record of a journey in Central Asia, and its aim is to illustrate the geographic relation between physical environment and man, and between the changes in climate and history...."
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JARRING, Gunnar. Return to Kashgar, Central Asian Memoirs in the Present. Durham: Duke University Press, 1986. First edition in English. Cloth, xi, 249pp. Fine in d/w. The author visited Kashgar in 1929 and again in 1978. This work is provides an account of each visit with a contrast between "then and now." Jarring is a distinguished Swedish scholar who has written many, more academic books on Turkistan.
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$35 | Book Number: 28711 | Order / Enquire |
KINROSS, Lord. Europa Minor. Journeys in Coastal Turkey. London: John Murray, (1956). First edition. Cloth, 167pp. Fine in d/w with some wear to the spine ends. Lord Kinross travels down the Asiatic plateau to the lands which lie "without the Taurus" between the mountain barrier and the sea.
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$85 | Book Number: 9896 | Order / Enquire |
$500 | Book Number: 25799 | Order / Enquire |
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MACLEAN, Fitzroy. A Person From England and Other Travellers. London: Jonathan Cape, (1958). First edition. Cloth, 384pp. Fine in d/w with chipping to sine ends and rubbing, very good. "Turkestan.....remote, mysterious and inaccessible behind the barrier of deserts and mountains, has always possessed a romantic fascination for travellers......" During the period of the Great Game between Russia and Britain in the early nineteenth century the area was infiltrated by agents and travellers, both official and unofficial who maneuvred for position in the land between them. Maclean's work "allows us to relive their fantastic and little-known adventures and presents a striking picture of a fascinating part of the world at a fascinating moment in its history."
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$165 | Book Number: 10808 | Order / Enquire |
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$85 | Book Number: 9576 | Order / Enquire |
MACROY, Patrick. Signal Catastrophe The Story of the Disasterous Retreat from Kabul 1842. (London): Hodder & Stoughton, (1966). First edition. Cloth, 288pp. Cloth a bit speckled o/w a nice copy in d/w. Macroy has reconstructed on of the most appalling disasters that ever befell the British army; using contemporary material including dispatches, journals, letters he has produced a "narrative as fluent, thrilling, astonishing and ultimately tragic as any published in recent years."
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MASLOW, Jonathan. Sacred Horses. The Memoirs of a Turkmen Cowboy. New York: Random House, (1994). First edition. Cloth backed boards, 342pp. Fine in d/w.
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$285 | Book Number: 30985 | Order / Enquire |
$85 | Book Number: 9978 | Order / Enquire |
PERCEIRA, Michael. East of Trebizond. London: Readers Union, 1972. Cloth, 256pp. Fine in an about fine d/w. Travels in the far north-east of Turkey, bordering the Black Sea and the Soviet Union,.
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