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Revival: Moved on! From Kashgar to Kashmir (1935)
Pavel Nazaroff travels from Kashgar, through the Kuen Lun and Karakoram mountains and on to Srinagar, Kashmir in the early 1930s, and describes the people and places he visited.
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Hunted Through Central Asia
My position was uncomfortable. Here was I, in an absolutely exposed place, with Red Guards and commissars on every side. I had very little money left and no means of transport at all.' Paul Nazaroff was the ringleader of a desperate plot to overthrow the Bolsheviks in Central Asia in 1918. He was betrayed to the Secret Police, who declared him 'the most dangerous counter-revolutionary at large in the Tashkent region'. Thus began his extraordinary catalogue of adventures, 'a long and distant odyssey which would take me right across Central Asia ... over the Himalayas to the plains of Hindustan'.
Hunted Through Central Asia
The story of Pavel Nazaroff reads more like something out of a spy thriller than one man's true story. Nazaroff, the ringleader of a plot to overthrow Bolshevik rule in Central Asia in 1918, was betrayed to the dreaded Cheka, or Bolshevik secret police, who quickly condemned him to death as "a known enemy of the proletariat." Just before his execution, however, a White Russian uprising stormed the prison in Tashkent where Nazaroff was held and in the confusion he escaped. And so began what he was later to describe as "a long and distant odyssey which would take me right across Central Asia, to the mysterious land of Tibet, and over the Himalayas to the plains of Hindustan." On his journey we...
Kingdom of Kashmir
In this important travellogue, first published in 1935, the author gives a detailed account of the land and the people of the Central Asia, Chinese Turkistan and Kashmir. It also highlights the history, the culture and the way of life of these regions. The travelogue also contains some rare illustrations of important places of Kashmir and other adjoining regions.
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The Eponym Dictionary of Mammals
Just who was the Przewalski after whom Przewalski's horse was named? Or Husson, the eponym for the rat Hydromys hussoni? Or the Geoffroy whose name is forever linked to Geoffroy's cat? This unique reference provides a brief look at the real lives behind the scientific and vernacular mammal names one encounters in field guides, textbooks, journal articles, and other scholarly works. Arranged to mirror standard dictionaries, the more than 1,300 entries included here explain the origins of over 2,000 mammal species names. Each bio-sketch lists the scientific and common-language names of all species named after the person, outlines the individual's major contributions to mammalogy and other branches of zoology, and includes brief information about his or her mammalian namesake's distribution. The two appendixes list scientific and common names for ease of reference, and, where appropriate, individual entries include mammals commonly -- but mistakenly -- believed to be named after people. The Eponym Dictionary of Mammals is a highly readable and informative guide to the people whose names are immortalized in mammal nomenclature.
