Description and travel, DT425 .F55 1898, 916.76 F554t
by William Walter Augustine Fitzgerald. Main Heritage Shelves General DT425 .F55 1898 Book Item-ID: i10233532 BIB-ID: 1024989 Bibliography: p. 737-738. Show moreby William Walter Augustine Fitzgerald. Main Heritage Shelves General DT425 .F55 1898 Book Item-ID: i10233532 BIB-ID: 1024989 Bibliography: p. 737-738. Show less
Introduction. Résumé of central Asian exploration -- The plan and objects of my journey -- Across Russia to Orenburg -- Across the Kirghiz Steppes... Show moreIntroduction. Résumé of central Asian exploration -- The plan and objects of my journey -- Across Russia to Orenburg -- Across the Kirghiz Steppes -- From Lake Aral to Tashkend -- From Tashkend to Margelan -- The Syr-Daria -- A winter journey over the Pamirs. Up the Isafaïran Valley -- Over the Tenghiz-Bai Pass -- Up the Alaï Valley -- Over the Trans-Alaï -- Lake Kara-Kul -- Population of the Russian Pamirs -- Geographical summary -- Fort Pamir -- The Mus-Tagh-Ata and its glaciers. From the Murghab to Bulun-Kul -- Mus-Tagh-Ata -- An attempt to climb Mus-Tagh-Ata -- Reminiscences of a Kashgar -- A Chinese dinner-party -- From Kashgar to Ighiz-Yar -- Through the Gorge of Tenghi-Tar -- The plain of Tagharma -- Among the Kirghiz -- Little Kara-Kul Lake -- Little Kara-Kul Lake (continued) -- Amongst the glaciers of Mus-Tagh-Ata -- My second attempt to ascend Mus-Tagh-Ata -- My third attempt to ascend Mus-Tagh-Ata -- Moonlight on Mus-Tagh-Ata -- To Fort Pamir and back -- Boating adventures on the Little Kara-Kul -- Life among the Kirghiz -- Return to Kashgar -- Across the Takla-Makan Desert. To Maral-Bashi -- An excursion to the Masar-Tagh -- The Shrine of Ordan Padshah -- On th threshold of the desert -- The start from Merket -- Skirting the desert -- An earthly paradise -- In the ban of the desert -- The camels break down -- No water left -- The camp of death -- The crisis comes -- A desperate march -- Human beings at last -- With the shepherds of the Khotan-Daria -- A rescue party -- Down the Kotan-Daria -- From Ak-Su to Kashgar. A summer trip to the southern Pamirs. Over the Ullug-Art Pass -- With the Anglo-Russian Boundary Commission -- Festivities on the Roof of the World -- Over the mountains to the Yarkand-Daria and to Kashgar -- Across the Desert of Gobi to Lop-Nor. From Kashgar to Kargalik -- Alongside the desert to Khotan -- City and oasis of Khotan -- Borasan and its archæological remains -- History of Khotan -- The buried city of Takla-Makan -- A curious shepherd race -- Down the Keriay-Daria -- Where the wild camel lives -- Where is the Tarim? -- Through the forests of the Tarim -- At Korla and Kara-Shahr -- The Lop-Nor problem -- A boat excursion on the northern Lop-Nor -- Along Przhevalsky's Lob-Nor by boat -- The return to Khotan -- The sequel of my desert journey -- Through northern Tibet and Tsaidam. Over the Kwen-Lun Passes -- My caravan : its several members -- We enter uninhabited regions -- Amongst the spurs of the Arka-Tagh -- Searching for a pass -- The deceitful Taghliks -- Over the Arka-Tagh at last -- The wild ass -- Hunting the wild yak -- Lakes without end -- Tibetan storms -- Discoveries of inscribed stones -- Inhabited regions again -- Among the Mongols of Tsaidam -- Through the Desert of Tsaidam -- Among the Mongolian lakes -- An encounter with Tangut robbers -- From Tsaidam to Peking. Through the country of the Tanguts -- Koko-Nor -- From Koko-Nor to Ten-Kar -- The temple of ten thousand images -- Si-ning-Fu and the Dungan Revolt -- From Sin-Ning-Fu to Liang-Chow-Fu -- Through the Desert of Ala-Shan -- Wang-Yeh-Fu and Ning-Sha -- To Peking and home. by Sven Hedin ; with nearly three hundred illustrations from sketches and photographs by the author. Translated from the Swedish by J.T. Bealby. Includes index. Main Heritage Shelves General DS8 .H44 1898 Book vol. 1 Item-ID: i2343739x BIB-ID: 1024695 Show less
comp. and arranged by Bayard Taylor ... At head of title: Illustrated library of travel, exploration, and adventure. The half-title is engraved. Revis... Show morecomp. and arranged by Bayard Taylor ... At head of title: Illustrated library of travel, exploration, and adventure. The half-title is engraved. Revised by Thomas Stevens. Main Heritage Shelves General DS207 .T39 1898 Book Item-ID: i2383190x BIB-ID: 1525687 Show less
Description and travel, Antiquities, DT54 .P65 1898
by Joseph Pollard ; with introduction by the Rev. W. Wright. Includes index. Also issued online. Show moreby Joseph Pollard ; with introduction by the Rev. W. Wright. Includes index. Also issued online. Show less
Introduction. Résumé of central Asian exploration -- The plan and objects of my journey -- Across Russia to Orenburg -- Across the Kirghiz Steppes... Show moreIntroduction. Résumé of central Asian exploration -- The plan and objects of my journey -- Across Russia to Orenburg -- Across the Kirghiz Steppes -- From Lake Aral to Tashkend -- From Tashkend to Margelan -- The Syr-Daria -- A winter journey over the Pamirs. Up the Isafaïran Valley -- Over the Tenghiz-Bai Pass -- Up the Alaï Valley -- Over the Trans-Alaï -- Lake Kara-Kul -- Population of the Russian Pamirs -- Geographical summary -- Fort Pamir -- The Mus-Tagh-Ata and its glaciers. From the Murghab to Bulun-Kul -- Mus-Tagh-Ata -- An attempt to climb Mus-Tagh-Ata -- Reminiscences of a Kashgar -- A Chinese dinner-party -- From Kashgar to Ighiz-Yar -- Through the Gorge of Tenghi-Tar -- The plain of Tagharma -- Among the Kirghiz -- Little Kara-Kul Lake -- Little Kara-Kul Lake (continued) -- Amongst the glaciers of Mus-Tagh-Ata -- My second attempt to ascend Mus-Tagh-Ata -- My third attempt to ascend Mus-Tagh-Ata -- Moonlight on Mus-Tagh-Ata -- To Fort Pamir and back -- Boating adventures on the Little Kara-Kul -- Life among the Kirghiz -- Return to Kashgar -- Across the Takla-Makan Desert. To Maral-Bashi -- An excursion to the Masar-Tagh -- The Shrine of Ordan Padshah -- On th threshold of the desert -- The start from Merket -- Skirting the desert -- An earthly paradise -- In the ban of the desert -- The camels break down -- No water left -- The camp of death -- The crisis comes -- A desperate march -- Human beings at last -- With the shepherds of the Khotan-Daria -- A rescue party -- Down the Kotan-Daria -- From Ak-Su to Kashgar. A summer trip to the southern Pamirs. Over the Ullug-Art Pass -- With the Anglo-Russian Boundary Commission -- Festivities on the Roof of the World -- Over the mountains to the Yarkand-Daria and to Kashgar -- Across the Desert of Gobi to Lop-Nor. From Kashgar to Kargalik -- Alongside the desert to Khotan -- City and oasis of Khotan -- Borasan and its archæological remains -- History of Khotan -- The buried city of Takla-Makan -- A curious shepherd race -- Down the Keriay-Daria -- Where the wild camel lives -- Where is the Tarim? -- Through the forests of the Tarim -- At Korla and Kara-Shahr -- The Lop-Nor problem -- A boat excursion on the northern Lop-Nor -- Along Przhevalsky's Lob-Nor by boat -- The return to Khotan -- The sequel of my desert journey -- Through northern Tibet and Tsaidam. Over the Kwen-Lun Passes -- My caravan : its several members -- We enter uninhabited regions -- Amongst the spurs of the Arka-Tagh -- Searching for a pass -- The deceitful Taghliks -- Over the Arka-Tagh at last -- The wild ass -- Hunting the wild yak -- Lakes without end -- Tibetan storms -- Discoveries of inscribed stones -- Inhabited regions again -- Among the Mongols of Tsaidam -- Through the Desert of Tsaidam -- Among the Mongolian lakes -- An encounter with Tangut robbers -- From Tsaidam to Peking. Through the country of the Tanguts -- Koko-Nor -- From Koko-Nor to Ten-Kar -- The temple of ten thousand images -- Si-ning-Fu and the Dungan Revolt -- From Sin-Ning-Fu to Liang-Chow-Fu -- Through the Desert of Ala-Shan -- Wang-Yeh-Fu and Ning-Sha -- To Peking and home. by Sven Hedin ; with nearly three hundred illustrations from sketches and photographs by the author. Translated from the Swedish by J.T. Bealby. Includes index. Main Heritage Shelves General DS8 .H44 1898 Book vol. 2 Item-ID: i10230592 BIB-ID: 1024695 Show less
Description and travel, DT401 .P35, Description and travel, DT401 .P35, Description and travel, DT401 .P35
by Capt. Francis B. Pearce ; with original illustrations, photographs, and map. Includes index. by Capt. Francis B. Pearce ; with original... Show moreby Capt. Francis B. Pearce ; with original illustrations, photographs, and map. Includes index. by Capt. Francis B. Pearce ; with original illustrations, photographs, and map. Includes index. by Capt. Francis B. Pearce ; with original illustrations, photographs, and map. Includes index. Show less
Description and travel, DR427 .B36 1898, 914.96 B37
Autobiography of a British consul at Constantinople, Damascus, Cairo, and other postings in Eastern Europe and the Middle East. Hulme-Beaman... Show moreAutobiography of a British consul at Constantinople, Damascus, Cairo, and other postings in Eastern Europe and the Middle East. Hulme-Beaman discusses the difficulties faced in his career--international tensions, legal troubles, extralegal executions, cultural misunderstandings, disease outbreaks, etc.--as well as friendly episodes with the people he lived and worked with. His topics range from class conflict in Serbia, to bear hunting, warfare in Crete, publishing his own newspaper (the Times of Egypt), English foreign policy, and trout fishing. by Ardern G. Hulme-Beaman ... Show less
by John Rooker. First published: London : Skeffington and Son, 1895. 'Published under the direction of the Tract Committee'. Show moreby John Rooker. First published: London : Skeffington and Son, 1895. 'Published under the direction of the Tract Committee'. Show less
by G. Ebers ; translated from the original German by Clara Bell, with an introduction and notes by S. Birch. Includes index. Main Heritage Shelves... Show moreby G. Ebers ; translated from the original German by Clara Bell, with an introduction and notes by S. Birch. Includes index. Main Heritage Shelves General DT54 .E24 1898 Book vol. 1 Item-ID: i10085737 BIB-ID: 1010209 Show less
by Sven Hedin ; with nearly three hundred illustrations from sketches and photographs by the author. Translated from the Swedish by J.T. Bealby. Show moreby Sven Hedin ; with nearly three hundred illustrations from sketches and photographs by the author. Translated from the Swedish by J.T. Bealby. Show less
by Seymour Vandeleur ... with an introduction by Sir George T. Goldie. Map of the Nupe country wanting. Also issued online. Show moreby Seymour Vandeleur ... with an introduction by Sir George T. Goldie. Map of the Nupe country wanting. Also issued online. Show less
by G. Ebers ; translated from the original German by Clara Bell, with an introduction and notes by S. Birch. Includes index. Main Heritage Shelves... Show moreby G. Ebers ; translated from the original German by Clara Bell, with an introduction and notes by S. Birch. Includes index. Main Heritage Shelves General DT54 .E24 1898 Book vol. 2 Item-ID: i2030285x BIB-ID: 1010209 Show less