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Russian central Asia including Kuldja, Bokhara, Khiva and Merv / (Record no. 41532)

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Transcribing agency ACKU
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Language code of text/sound track or separate title eng
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050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER
Classification number DK851.
Item number L368 1885
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Lansdell, Henry,
Dates associated with a name 1841-1919.
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Russian central Asia including Kuldja, Bokhara, Khiva and Merv /
Statement of responsibility, etc Henry Lansdell.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc London :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington,
Date of publication, distribution, etc 1885.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xxix, 687 pages :
Other physical details illustrations, maps ;
Dimensions 30 cm.
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General note “Henry Lansdell (1841–1919) was a Church of England clergyman who in 1879 and 1882 undertook two long and arduous journeys through what was then called Asiatic Russia, one to Siberia, and another to Russian Central Asia. His purpose was to distribute religious tracts and Bibles in the places he visited, especially in prisons, and to gather information of interest both to specialists and the general public. Russian Central Asia recounts Lansdell’s second journey, which took place over a 179-day period between June and December of 1882. By his own account, he covered a total of 12,145 miles (19,545 kilometers), traveling by rail, water, mounted on horse or camel, or on wheeled conveyances, and visiting Semipalatinsk (in present-day Kazakhstan); Kuldja (China); Tashkent, Khokand, Samarkand, Qarshi, Bukhara, and Khiva (in present-day Uzbekistan), Merv (in present-day Turkmenistan), and other locations. Landsell supplemented his own observations with detailed research and consultation with experts. Another of Landsell’s interests was the Bible, and the book contains numerous references to the ways in which, in his view, customs and traditions seen in Central Asia reflected those described in the Bible, the Old Testament in particular. His two-volume account was praised by critics for its detailed descriptions and analyses of places not well known at that time in the English-speaking world, but he was widely criticized for offering a rose-colored view of the prisons of Russian Central Asia and for excusing Russia’s expansionist foreign policy and, in particular, its recent annexation of Merv. The book contains a foldout map and illustrations. The end of volume two consists of three long appendices: listings of the fauna and flora of Russian Central Asia and a bibliography of 702 authoritative works, in English, French, German, and Russian, on the region”—copied from website.
General note The Library of Congress donated copies of the digitized material (along with extensive bibliographic records) containing more than 163,000 pages of documents to ACKU, the collections that include thousands of historical, cultural, and scholarly materials dating from the early 1300s to the 1990s includes books, manuscripts, maps, photographs, newspapers and periodicals related to Afghanistan in Pushto, Dari, as well as in English, French, German, Russian and other European languages ACKU has a PDF copy of the item.
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Language note English
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Russia (Federation) – Description and travel.
651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME
Geographic name Asia, Central – Description and travel.
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Electronic format type PDF
Uniform Resource Identifier <a href="https://doi.org/10.29171/azu_acku_dk851_l368_1885 ">https://doi.org/10.29171/azu_acku_dk851_l368_1885 </a>
Public note Scanned for ACKU.
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Source of classification or shelving scheme Library of Congress Classification
Koha item type Monograph
Call number prefix azu_acku_dk851_l368_1885
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    Library of Congress Classification     Afghanistan Centre at Kabul University Afghanistan Centre at Kabul University 20/01/2018   DK851.L368 1885 3ACKU000504901 20/01/2018 20/01/2018 Monograph The digital file donated from Library of Congress-World Digital Library, PDF is available in ACKU.

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