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Reconnoitring Central Asia

Swan Sonnenschein

1884

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A first edition of Charles Marvin's book on exploration, Reconnoitring Central Asia.

  • Charles Marvin (English).
  • Reconnoitring Central Asia: Pioneering adventures in the region lying between Russia and India.
  • London: Swan Sonnenschein, 1884.
  • Octavo.
  • 421 pages.
  • With frontispiece, folding map, and 7 wood-engraved illustrations.
  • Bound in the orginal pictorial cloth, gilt.


Marvin's popular account of some of the more famous explorers and explorations of Central Asia in the 1860s-1880s such as Vambery, Burnaby, MacGregor, Alikhanoff, etc.

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First Edition

Language

English

Subject

Asia, Travel and Exploration, History, Fine bindings

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