Beyond the Caspian : A Naturalist in Central Asia

Pencil marginalia. Yellow highlighting on a couple of pages. Tears to dust-jacket. Dust-jacket has been laminated in clear plastic. Dust-jacket is price-clipped. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover. ; xx, 290 pages + 6 colour plates (including frontispiece) + 18 black and white illustrations on plate leaves (1 double page) + 1 colour map. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine and front board. Page dimensions: 214 x 139mm. "Douglas Carruthers, gold medallist of the Royal Geographical Society, explorer, naturalist, and collector, tells of his travels and hunting experiences over several years in the great deserts and mountain ranges of Russian Central Asia, and particularly of the animals and birds of which he was in search, many of which proved new to science. Although he was primarily interested in the natural history of the regions traversed, yet he conveys an intimate picture of those strange capitals at the back of the world, Bukhara and Samarkand, of the inhabitants of ancient Farghana, as fiery as the horses for which they are famous, of those who dwell by the mighty Oxus, of those who pasture over the high Pamirs." - from dust-jacket blurb. [References: Czech, Asian p. 44;

Product Info

ISBN: 0896582647

ISBN-13: 9780896582644

Publisher: Oliver and Boyd

Year: 1949

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

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