Mission to Turkestan being the memoirs of Count K. K. Pahlen 1908-1909. Edited and introduced

by Richard A. Pierce. Translated by N. J. Couriss by K. K. Pahlen, Count

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First edition

London: Oxford University Press, 1964. First edition, 8vo, pp. xv, 3 , 241, 1 ; map endpapers, frontispiece portrait, fine copy in a fine, unclipped dust jacket. The vast area of land that lies to the east of the Caspian Sea and stretches to the borders of China; that lies north of Persia and Afghanistan and reaches the edge of Siberia; an area containing deserts, high mountains, and great lakes - the land of Tamerlane - was brought under Russian rule in the

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