“What are you doing here – making plans?”
“No,” I said apprehensively; “I’m just walking along through
the country to see what it is like. Afterwards I write about it.”
“For a library, so to speak?”
“That’s it.”
(Through Russian Central Asia, 1916, p.79)
Books presented on the blog
(from my constantly growing library of mainly travel, mainly historic
literature on Central Asia):
Fred
Whishaw, A Lost Army. A Tale of the Russians in Central Asia (1896)
London,
Edinburg, and New York: T. Nelson and Sons
Joshua
Kunitz, Dawn Over Samarkand. Rebirth of Central Asia (1943)
Calcutta:
General Publishers Ltd, first published in Great Britain in 1936
F. M.
Bailey, Mission to Tashkent (1946)
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