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Books > Earth & environment > Geography > Geographical discovery & exploration
The Quest for Forbidden Lands: Nikolai Przhevalskii and his
Followers on Inner Asian Tracks is a collection of biographical
essays of outstanding Russian explorers of Inner Asia of the late
nineteenth - early twentieth century, Nikolai Przhevalskii,
Vsevolod Roborovskii, Mikhail Pevtsov, Petr Kozlov, Grigorii
Grumm-Grzhimailo and Bronislav Grombchevskii, almost all senior
army officers. Their expeditions were organized by the Imperial
Russian Geographical Society with some assistance from the military
department with a view of exploring and mapping the vast uncharted
territories of Inner Asia, being the Western periphery of the
Manchu-Chinese Empire. The journeys of these pioneers were a great
success and gained world renown for their many discoveries and the
valuable collections they brought from the region.
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Swifty
(Hardcover)
Irv Burnett
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R661
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Discovery Miles 6 100
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