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Longlisted for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award A historical tapestry of border-crossing travelers, of students, wanderers, martyrs and invaders, The White Mosque is a memoiristic, prismatic record of a journey through Uzbekistan and of the strange shifts, encounters, and accidents that combine to create an identity In the late nineteenth century, a group of German-speaking Mennonites traveled from Russia into Central Asia, where their charismatic leader predicted Christ would return. Over a century later, Sofia Samatar joins a tour following their path, fascinated not by the hardships of their journey, but by its aftermath: the establishment of a small Christian village in the Muslim Khanate o...
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This book has been replaced by A Geography of Russia and Its Neighbors, Second Edition, ISBN 978-1-4625-4459-2.
Published in 1843 by a pioneer of British Egyptology, this two-volume guide is replete with information for the contemporary traveller.
Eden's 1879 account of Siberia combines accounts of flora and fauna, 'native races', 'trade and manufactures' and 'recent explorations'.