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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Authors: Andreev, A. I. (Aleksandr Ivanovich) (Author), Baskhanov, M. K. (Mikhail Kazbekovich) (Author), Yusupova, Tatiana (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018]
Series:Eurasian studies library : history, societies & cultures in Eurasia, volume 10
Subjects:
Przhevalʹskiĭ, Nikolaĭ Mikhaĭlovich, > 1839-1888.
Przhevalʹskiĭ, Nikolaĭ Mikhaĭlovich, > 1839-1888
Imperatorskoe russkoe geograficheskoe obshchestvo.
Imperatorskoe russkoe geograficheskoe obshchestvo
Explorers > Russia > Biography.
Explorers > Asia, Central > Biography.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Historical.
TRAVEL > Asia > General.
Discoveries in geography > Russian
Explorers
Asia, Central > Discovery and exploration > Russian.
Central Asia
Russia
Biography
Biographies
Biographies.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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

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