The Duab of Turkestan
a Physiographic Sketch and Account of Some Travels

A detailed description of early twentieth-century Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and south-west Kazakhstan, illustrated with 207 maps and photographs.

W. Rickmer Rickmers (Author)

9781108010665, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 26 August 2010

596 pages, 201 b/w illus. 2 maps
22.9 x 15.2 x 3.4 cm, 0.86 kg

W. Rickmer Rickmers (1873–1965) was a German explorer and mountaineer who visited and explored central Asia five times between 1894 and 1906. This book provides an account of his travels in the area he calls Turkestan, which incorporates modern Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and south-west Kazakhstan, and was first published in 1913. The region, which contains the ancient cities of Samarkand and Bukhara, had not been previously described in so much detail by a western European traveller. Rickmers includes accounts of both these historic cities as well as describing the social life of the indigenous people, with a comprehensive survey of the geography of the region. Richly illustrated with 207 maps and photographs, this volume provides an insight into the everyday life of the area before the upheavals of the Soviet era.

1. The Duab of Turkestan
2. The physical features of the Duab
3. The Zarafshan
4. A visit to Makhan-Kul
5. Bokhara and the road to Karshi
6. Samarkand
7. The ascent of Kemkutan
8. A trip to the mountains of Urgut
9. From Samarkand to Varziminar
10. From Varziminar to the Zarafshan glacier
11. The Zarafshan glacier
12. To the mountains of the Fan
13. To Garm and the mountains of Peter the Great
14. Tupchek and the ascent of Great Achik
15. The glaciers and moraines of Tupchek
16. To Kalaikhumb and the Yakhsu conglomerates
17. The Oxus jungles, Baljuan, Karatagh
18. From Karatagh to Samarkand
Appendix
Index.

Subject Areas: Physical geography & topography [RGB]