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THIS is a popular edition of the author's well-known “Russian Central Asia, including Kuldja, Bokhara, Khiva, and Merv.” He has omitted many whole chapters and most of the notes, thinking it best that the present edition should consist chiefly of a personal narrative. Any student who may desire fuller information regarding Central Asia is referred to the original work, in which Dr. Lansdell gives 4300 species of fauna and flora in about twenty lists with introductions, adds a bibliography of 700 titles, and treats more or less fully of the geography, economy and administration, ethnology, antiquities, history, meteorology, geology, zoology, and botany of all parts of Russian Turkistan, Kuldja, Bokhara, Khiva, and Turkmenia, down to the frontier of Afghanistan. To the new and abridged edition he has added an appendix on he delimitation of the Russo-Afghan frontier.
Through Central Asia.
By Henry Lansdell (London: Sampson Low, 1887.)
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[Book Reviews]. Nature 37, 221 (1888). https://doi.org/10.1038/037221b0
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