The quest for forbidden lands : Nikolai Przhevalskii and his followers on Inner Asian tracks /
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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Autores principales: | , , |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2018]
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Colección: | Eurasian studies library : history, societies & cultures in Eurasia,
volume 10 |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Into Inner Asia, in Search for the Unknown: The Russian Explorations and Explorers of the Region / Alexander I. Andreyev
- A Glimpse of History: Early Travelers in the 'Forbidden Lands' (From the 13th to the Mid-19th Century)
- The Imperial Russian Geographical Society, P.P. Semenov, and the Onset of Exploration of Inner Asia
- The IRGO
- War Ministry Cooperation. The 'Epic Era' of Przhevalskii's Expeditions
- Exploration and the Great Game
- Ethnographic Research and the 'Imperial Visions'
- The Final Stage of Explorations: The Academy of Sciences Taking the Lead
- Some Concluding Remarks
- Nikolai Mikhailovich Przhevalskii (1839-1888) / Alexander I. Andreyev
- Mikhail Vasil'ievich Pevtsov (1843-1902) / Mikhail K. Baskhanov
- Vsevolod Ivanovich Roborovskii (1856-1910) / Alexander I. Andreyev
- Pyotr Kuzmich Kozlov (1863-1935) / Alexander I. Andreyev, Tatiana I. Yusupova
- Bronislav Liudvigovich Grombchevskii (1855-1926) / Mikhail K. Baskhanov
- Grigorii Efimovich Grumm-Grzhimailo (1860-1936) / Tatiana I. Yusupova