W. Rickmer Rickmers (1873 1965) was a German explorer and
mountaineer who visited and explored central Asia five times
between 1894 and 1906. This book provides an account of his travels
in the area he calls Turkestan, which incorporates modern
Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and south-west Kazakhstan, and was first
published in 1913. The region, which contains the ancient cities of
Samarkand and Bukhara, had not been previously described in so much
detail by a western European traveller. Rickmers includes accounts
of both these historic cities as well as describing the social life
of the indigenous people, with a comprehensive survey of the
geography of the region. Richly illustrated with 207 maps and
photographs, this volume provides an insight into the everyday life
of the area before the upheavals of the Soviet era.
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