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hardcover. Condición: Good. ex-library.

Hardcover. Condición: As New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good,Slight Chips & Tears. K. E. West (Abridged By) Ilustrador. Reprint. Abridged reprint of classic book on Central Asia (First published in 2 volumes 1876) Eugene Schuyler was sent to Russia as a diplomat at the period of Russian military expansion into Central Asia, and was able to travel in the area with some official sanction. Schuyler gives detailed descriptions of his journeys and what he observed and states "The chief aim of my journey in Central Asia was to study the political and social condition of the regions which had been recently annexed by Russia, as well as to compare the state of the inhabitants under Russian rule with that of those still living under the despotism of the Khans'' Edited with an introduction by Geoffrey Wheeler, Abridged by K.E.West. 203p. map. illus.index.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. First Thus. Xxxvi, 303 pages + 23 in-text illustrations + 4 maps (1 folding) . Pink cloth covers with gilt titles on spine. Ex-library. Library stamps and markings. Some spine lean. Gutters at endpapers reinforced with masking tape. Large blank triangle cut from rear flap of dust wrapper. "Eight years after the Russian capture of Tashkent in 1865, Eugene Schuyler, then American consul in St. Petersburg, set out to tour Russia's newly acquired dominions. His purpose was to acquaint himself with the way of life and environment of the Muslim peoples inhabiting the region and to see how they were faring under Russian rule. " - from dust wrapper blurb.; Ex-Library; 8vo.