In the mid-nineteenth century the eyes of western European explorers were firmly fixed on advancing inland from former maritime colonies in the Americas, Africa, the Indian sub-continent and Australasia, their motives often being inextricably bound up with concerns of imperial politics and commerce. Simultaneously, further east, Russians resumed their perceived mission to civilise Asia, following their own country's humiliation during the Crimean War. From a springboard of Siberian territories acquired gradually over the ...
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In the mid-nineteenth century the eyes of western European explorers were firmly fixed on advancing inland from former maritime colonies in the Americas, Africa, the Indian sub-continent and Australasia, their motives often being inextricably bound up with concerns of imperial politics and commerce. Simultaneously, further east, Russians resumed their perceived mission to civilise Asia, following their own country's humiliation during the Crimean War. From a springboard of Siberian territories acquired gradually over the previous three centuries, discovery and expansion radiated from the Imperial Russian Geographical Society, founded in 1845 and incorporating initiatives drawn from descendants of immigrant French and German scientists who themselves inspired a new generation of liberal intellectuals.
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F in F- jacket. F/F-. 8vo. original blue cloth gilt in dustwrapper (spine a trifle sunned); pp. xliv, 270 (last blank), with 15 colour plates & 4 maps. A fine copy.
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Very Good in Good jacket. The dust jacket is a little shelf rubbed, slightly marked and edge worn. Now protected in cellophane. The binding is excellent. GK.
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Very Good in Very Good- jacket. Size: 5x1x8; First thus. Hakluyt Society, 1998; no later printings indicated; xlii, 269pp. Hakluyt Society Second Series, Vol. 146. Binding is tight, sturdy, and square; very minor wear to edges of light blue cloth boards, gilt titling remains bright and bold; text very good; previous owner's bookplate on front paste-down. Light wear to edges of unclipped dust jacket; light rubbing to front and rear panels; jacket arrives wrapped in protective mylar. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. pp. xliii, (1), 269, b/w and color plates. "This work presents a European view of Central Asia before the large-scale influx of Russian peasant settlers that followed the emancipation of the serfs in 1861." 8vo.
