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Author : Sven Hedin
Publisher : Asian Educational Services
ISBN 13 : 9788120616141
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (161 download)
Download or read book Riddles of the Gobi Desert written by Sven Hedin and published by Asian Educational Services. This book was released on 2002 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translated From The Swedish By Elizabeth Sprigge And Claude Napier
Author : R. W. McColl
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0816072299
Total Pages : 1182 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of World Geography written by R. W. McColl and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 1182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a comprehensive guide to the geography of the world, with world maps and articles on cartography, notable explorers, climate and more.
Author : Jennifer Speake
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135456631
Total Pages : 1425 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (354 download)
Download or read book Literature of Travel and Exploration written by Jennifer Speake and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-05-12 with total page 1425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing more than 600 entries, this valuable resource presents all aspects of travel writing. There are entries on places and routes (Afghanistan, Black Sea, Egypt, Gobi Desert, Hawaii, Himalayas, Italy, Northwest Passage, Samarkand, Silk Route, Timbuktu), writers (Isabella Bird, Ibn Battuta, Bruce Chatwin, Gustave Flaubert, Mary Kingsley, Walter Ralegh, Wilfrid Thesiger), methods of transport and types of journey (balloon, camel, grand tour, hunting and big game expeditions, pilgrimage, space travel and exploration), genres (buccaneer narratives, guidebooks, New World chronicles, postcards), companies and societies (East India Company, Royal Geographical Society, Society of Dilettanti), and issues and themes (censorship, exile, orientalism, and tourism). For a full list of entries and contributors, a generous selection of sample entries, and more, visit the Literature of Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopedia website.
Author : Jennifer Speake
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9781579584245
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (842 download)
Download or read book Literature of Travel and Exploration: G to P written by Jennifer Speake and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2003 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing more than 600 entries, this valuable resource presents all aspects of travel writing. There are entries on places and routes (Afghanistan, Black Sea, Egypt, Gobi Desert, Hawaii, Himalayas, Italy, Northwest Passage, Samarkand, Silk Route, Timbuktu), writers (Isabella Bird, Ibn Battuta, Bruce Chatwin, Gustave Flaubert, Mary Kingsley, Walter Ralegh, Wilfrid Thesiger), methods of transport and types of journey (balloon, camel, grand tour, hunting and big game expeditions, pilgrimage, space travel and exploration), genres (buccaneer narratives, guidebooks, New World chronicles, postcards), companies and societies (East India Company, Royal Geographical Society, Society of Dilettanti), and issues and themes (censorship, exile, orientalism, and tourism). For a full list of entries and contributors, a generous selection of sample entries, and more, visit the Literature of Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopedia website.
Author : Christel Braae
Publisher : Aarhus Universitetsforlag
ISBN 13 : 877184497X
Total Pages : 1000 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (718 download)
Download or read book Among Herders of Inner Mongolia written by Christel Braae and published by Aarhus Universitetsforlag. This book was released on 2017-10-20 with total page 1000 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a study of a unique collection of Inner Mongolian artifacts at the National Museum of Denmark. They are described, analyzed and presented in a catalogue of more than 800 items, documenting the daily life of pastoral society in and around the tent, in the herding of the animals, in caravan trade and in hunting, crafts, sports and games, and in ritual life. Information about the objects was obtained during two expeditions to Inner Mongolia in the 1930s led by the Danish author Henning Haslund-Christensen, who had many years' experience of travel and expedition life in Mongolia. This is also a detailed account of the expeditions; of the routes, means and measures, as well as the worries and hopes of the participants; of their struggles with scientific aspirations; and of the conditions for collecting against the backdrop of the Chinese civil war and the Japanese occupation. The First and Second Danish Expeditions to Central Asia took place in 1936-1937 and 1938-1939 respectively. These expeditions were the sole foreign parties with access to the area at the time, and therefore their members were among the few observers of Inner Mongolian pastoral society at a time and place for which information was, and still is, scant and fragmented. Hence, the material objects and data obtained are of great scientific importance in the documentation of the life and material culture of Inner Mongolian herders in the 1930s - the main subject of the present book.
Author : Christoph Baumer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857718320
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)
Download or read book Traces in the Desert written by Christoph Baumer and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2008-06-30 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For five millennia, the peoples and cultures of East and West have met and mingled in Central Asia. For explorers and travellers it is a promised land, a region of white spaces on the map, forgotten cities and archaeological treasures. Christoph Baumer has spent a lifetime travelling through the countries of Central Asia, making extraordinary discoveries along the way. "Traces in the Desert" follows in his intrepid footsteps as he finds evidence of Indo-Europeans in the steppes of Western Mongolia, discovers lost oasis cities in the Taklamakan and unearths art treasures in Tibet. He embarks on a quest to find Genghis Khan's long-lost tomb and has numerous, occasionally hair-raising, encounters with shamans, Iranian politicians and armed Tibetan bandits. Enlightening and full of adventure, "Traces in the Desert" uniquely illuminates the hidden parts of Central Asia that have not just disappeared beneath the shifting sands, but also from the horizon of our memory.
Author : M. Epstein
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230270638
Total Pages : 1506 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)
Download or read book The Statesman's Year-Book written by M. Epstein and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-12-27 with total page 1506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.
Author : Cyril E. Black
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131548899X
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)
Download or read book The Modernization of Inner Asia written by Cyril E. Black and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-09-16 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inner Asia - in premodern times the little-known land of nomads and semi-nomads - has moved to the world's front page in the 20th century as the complex struggles for the future of Afghanistan, Soviet Central Asia, Tibet and other territories make clear. But because Inner Asia as a whole is divided among several states politically and among area specialists academically, broad perspectives on recent events are difficult to find. This work treats the region as a single unit, providing both an account of the region's past and an analysis of its present and its prospects in a thematic, rather than a strictly country-by-country manner.
Author : Mortimer Epstein
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230270727
Total Pages : 1492 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)
Download or read book The Statesman's Year-Book written by Mortimer Epstein and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-12-27 with total page 1492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.
Author : Ardi Kia
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498589065
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)
Download or read book Central Asian Cultures, Arts, and Architecture written by Ardi Kia and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2018-10-15 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Central Asia Cultures, Arts, and Architecture presents a journey through time, analyzing the history of Central Asian cultures, arts, and architecture since prehistoric times. It includes documentation of historical, cultural, artistic, and architectural accomplishments, and combines writings based on archaeological excavations and research of prehistoric, ancient, and medieval sites, as well as translations of ancient and medieval historical sources by Russian, Chinese, and other indigenous scholars. For over seven thousand years, Central Asian residents have left a record of distinguished cultural artifacts. Like creators of any age or period, they sought to respond as creatively as possible to the necessities of their societies as a whole, and those of their individual patrons. In doing so, as this book reveals, they have given us a timeless source through which we can detect the dynamic stages of their creativity throughout history, as well as the breath of our own rich cultural and artistic heritage.
Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 830 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Catalogue of Copyright Entries written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 830 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2380 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries. New Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by Copyright Office, Library of Congress. This book was released on 1934 with total page 2380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : University of New Hampshire. Library
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Library Lantern written by University of New Hampshire. Library and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Elizabeth Wayland Barber
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393320190
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Mummies Of Urumchi written by Elizabeth Wayland Barber and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2000-05-02 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An absorbing exploration of the mysterious, perfectly preserved Caucasian mummies of western China--an informative unveiling of an ancient and exotic world. 16 pp. of color photos. 50 drawings. Author lectures.
Author : Yajun Mo
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501760645
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Touring China written by Yajun Mo and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2021-12-15 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Touring China, Yajun Mo explores how early twentieth century Chinese sightseers described the destinations that they visited, and how their travel accounts gave Chinese readers a means to imagine their vast country. The roots of China's tourism market stretch back over a hundred years, when railroad and steamship networks expanded into the coastal regions. Tourism-related businesses and publications flourished in urban centers while scientific exploration, investigative journalism, and wartime travel propelled many Chinese from the eastern seaboard to its peripheries. Mo considers not only accounts of overseas travel and voyages across borderlands, but also trips within China. On the one hand, via travel and travel writing, the unity of China's coastal regions, inland provinces, and western frontiers was experienced and reinforced. On the other, travel literature revealed a persistent tension between the aspiration for national unity and the anxiety that China might fall apart. Touring China tells a fascinating story about the physical and intellectual routes people took on various journeys, against the backdrop of the transition from Chinese empire to nation-state.
Author : Sven Anders Hedin (explorateur)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (145 download)
Download or read book Riddles of the Gobi Desert written by Sven Anders Hedin (explorateur) and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Hatcher Childress
Publisher : Adventures Unlimited Press
ISBN 13 : 9780932813077
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Lost Cities of China, Central Asia, & India written by David Hatcher Childress and published by Adventures Unlimited Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores some of the world's oldest and most remote countries in search of lost cities and ancient mysteries.
