The Quest for Forbidden Lands

Nikolai Przhevalskii and His Followers on Inner Asian Tracks

von Mikhail Baskhanov, Alexandre I Andreyev, Tatyana Yusupova

392 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Themen: Biographie, Literatur und Literaturwissenschaft Biografien und Sachliteratur Allgemein
• ISBN: 9789004303980
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 30.08.2018
• Größe: 236 x 160 mm
• Verlag: Brill