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Travels Through Northern Persia, 1770-1774 (Paperback)
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Travels Through Northern Persia, 1770-1774 (Paperback)
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In 1770 the young German scientist and explorer Samuel Gottlieb
Gmelin embarked on a journey on behalf of the Russian Academy of
Sciences and in the service of Catherine the Great. These
heretofore little-read accounts of his travels and broad research
in Northern Persia, first published in German in St. Petersburg in
the 1770's, have now been translated for the first time into
English by renowned scholar Willem Floor. In the two voyages
recounted in this volume, Gmelin kept journals describing the
customs, industry, political world, warfare, geography, and plant
and animal life of Northern Persia, until his capture and
imprisonment in the village of Parakay near the Caspian Sea in
1774--a misfortune that he also was able to record, and which is
included here in the final volume of his travelogue.
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