Central Asia
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Eastward To Tartary
by Robert D Kaplan
Robert D. Kaplan is chief geopolitical analyst for Stratfor, a private global intelligence firm, and the author of fourteen books on foreign affairs and travel translated into many languages, including The Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate; Monsoon: The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power; Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History; and Warrior Politics: Why Leadership Demands a Pagan Ethos. He has been a foreign correspondent for The...
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Jihad
by Ahmed Rashid -
Ahmed Rashid, whose masterful account of Afghanistan's Taliban regime became required reading after September 11, turns his legendary skills as an investigative journalist to five adjacent Central Asian Republics—Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan—where religious repression, political corruption, and extreme poverty have created a fertile climate for militant Islam. Based on groundbreaking research and numerous interviews, Rashid explains the roots of...
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Kizil On the Silk Road
by Rajeshwari Ghose
"Vol. 59, No. 3"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Central Asia Books & Ephemera
An Account Of the Kingdom Of Caubul, and Its Dependencies In Persia, Tartary, and India
by Elphinstone, Mountstuart
In Exile from the Land of Snows
by Avedon, John F
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1984. xii, 383p., illustrated with numerous b&w photos and featuring two separate doublespread endsheet maps of Tibet, 'historic' and 'today'; hardbound first edition in clothbacked boards and dust jacket. Jacket is a little edgeworn, a sound, clean, unmarked copy.
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A Ride To Khiva: Travels And Adventures In Central Asia
by Fred Burnaby
A Ride To Khiva: Travels And Adventures In Central Asia by Fred Burnabyfirst editionhardcoverPublisher:Harper & Brothers, 1877Condition: Good - general wear, rubbing to the covers and spine, maps in the pockets are missing
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Setting the East Ablaze: Lenin's Dream of an Empire in Asia
by Hopkirk, Peter
London, John Murray, 2006. Softcover. Good.
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CA$16.34
A Ride to Khiva: Travels and Adventures in Central Asia
by Burnaby, Fred
London: Cassell, Petter, Galpin, 1900. Sixteenth Edition. Full Leather. Very Good. 20.5 x 13.5 cm. Octavo. xvii 429pp [1]. Bound into full red leather, gilt spine design, spine label. Marble foredges and endpapers. Originally published in 1876, no date on title or copyright page of this edition, this edition ~crica 1900. Scuffing to edges of boards. Previous owner's name, fairly large and in purple ink on blank endpaper and title page.
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CA$69.32
A ride to Khiva: travels and adventures in Central Asia
by Fred Burnaby
Rider & Company. Fair. 140 x 220mm. Paperback. 2000. 400 pages. Cover creased. spine faded Name on ffep.<br>Facsimile of ed. published: London : Cassell, 1876. .
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CA$7.42
Between Oxus and Jumna
by Arnold J. Toynbee
Oxford University Press, 1963. Hardcover. Acceptable/Good. 1963. This Edition. 212 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth. Light tanning to pages with minor foxing to text block edges; some minor water staining to rear most pages but text remains legible. Binding remains firm. Boards have minor corner bumping, denting and edgewear with light crushing to spine ends. Minor red stain to front board. Spine has light sunning. Unclipped dust jacket with minor rubbing to edges. Moderate tanning to spine.
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CA$6.45
K2. One Woman's Quest For The Summit -- SIGNED By Author
by Howkins, Heidi
Washington D.C.: National Geographic, 2001. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/As New. 2001 FIRST PRINTING of First Edition. Original grey boards, white cloth spine with silver lettering. SIGNED by Heidi Howkins, the author, in pen on title page. Flawless new condition in flawless dust jacket. Purchased directly from the author at a lecture and signed at that time by the author. Book measures 235mm tall x 155mm, and has 270 pages, 18 color photos. Author's account of her first two...
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A Ride to Khiva
by Fred Burnaby
Paperback / softback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; An immediate bestseller when first published in 1877, Burnaby s delight in a life of risk and adventure still burns through the pages, as does his spontaneous affection for the Cossack troopers and Tartar, Khirgiz and Turkoman tribesmen
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CA$24.65
![Setting the East Ablaze: Lenin's Dream of an Empire in Asia. [Kodansha Globe Series]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/261/717/47717261.0.b.jpg)
Setting the East Ablaze: Lenin's Dream of an Empire in Asia. [Kodansha Globe Series]
by Hopkirk, Peter
New York : Kodansha International, 1995., 1995. As New. x, 252 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm. ; ISBN: 1568361025 (pbk.); LCCN: 95-41556 ; OCLC: 33131562 ; Originally published: London : J. Murray, 1984 ; pictorial paper wrappers ; "A real-life tale of espionage and adventure, Hopkirk's latest concerns Soviet attempts to sponsor communist revolution in Asia and the British secret agent who opposed them." -- Publisher's Weekly ; AS NEW
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CA$23.57
A Ride to Khiva: Travels and Adventures in Central Asia
by Fred Burnaby
Paperback / softback. New. An account of Captain Burnaby's remarkable 1875 journey through Russian territory during the 'Great Game', when Russia and Britain vied to control central Asia. The book, published in 1876 and immediately reprinted, brought him instant fame. It features maps of the route he travelled and an appendix.
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CA$85.59
A RIDE TO KHIVA: TRAVELS AND ADVENTURES IN CENTRAL ASIA
by Burnaby Fred
London: Cassell & Co. Ltd., n.d.. Early popular edition. Small 4to, three-quarter contemporary brown calf stamped with floral border in blind over feathered boards, spine in compartments separated by gilt rule and tooling, red and green morocco labels lettered in gilt. 398, including appendix. A handsome and sturdy copy, internally quite fresh and clean. AN ATTRACTIVE COPY OF THIS SCARCE WORK OF CENTRAL ASIAN TRAVEL. Burnaby’s famous journey on horseback from St. Petersburg to Khiva...
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Eastward to Tartary : Travels in the Balkans, the Middle East, and the Caucasus
by Robert D. Kaplan
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2001. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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CA$9.45
Setting the East Ablaze: Lenin's Dream of an Empire in Asia
by Hopkirk, Peter
W W Norton & Co Inc, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 9x6x1. Norton & Co, 1985; stated First American Edition, no later printings indicated; x, 252pp. Binding is tight, sturdy, and square; light wear to edges of cream cloth boards, gilt titling remains bright and bold; text, illustrations very good throughout. Light toning and wear to edges of unclipped dust jacket; jacket arrives wrapped in protective mylar. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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CA$48.52
![[RUSSIA / OTTOMAN EMPIRE] Consultation fournie a la Sublime-Porte dans l'Affaire des indemnitaires Russes [i.e., Consultation provided to the Sublime-Porte in the Russian Indemnitors' Case].](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/493/458/1586458493.0.b.jpg)
[RUSSIA / OTTOMAN EMPIRE] Consultation fournie a la Sublime-Porte dans l'Affaire des indemnitaires Russes [i.e., Consultation provided to the Sublime-Porte in the Russian Indemnitors' Case].
by ROGUIN, M. E[RNEST] (1851-1939)
Paris: Imprimerie Chaix., [1910], 1910. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Original wrappers. 4to. (29 x 22 cm). In French. 167 p. Taken from a volume, wear to spine, slight chipping on the right extremity. Overall, a very good copy. A rare consultancy report submitted to the Sublime Porte by the world-famous jurist Roguin, who was consulted in a case between the Russian parties and the Ottoman Empire when he was the president of the Ecole des Sciences Sociales...
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Sketches From Nepal. Historical and Descriptive with an Essay on Nepalese Buddhism & Illustrations of Religious Monuments & Architecture --- 1974 HARDCOVER
by Oldfield, H. Ambrose
Dehli: Cosmo Publications, 1974. Reprint . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 1974 HARDCOVER REPRINT. Original navy cloth with gilt lettering spine. The book has clean covers, no previous owner marks of writing on any pages, no foxing, solid binding. The original dust jacket has edge rubbing, shallow loss along top of spine, 2cm twisting tear upper rear near spine crease). The book measures 221mm tall x 142mm, and has 418 pages, 7 b/w engravings. PHOTOS ARE OF THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING OFFERED.
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CA$76.25
TRAVELS IN CENTRAL ASIA; Being the Account of a Journey from Teheran across the Turkoman Desert on the Eastern Shore of the Caspian to Khiva, Bokhara, and Samarcand performed in the year 1863
by VAMBERY, Arminius
London: John Murray, 1864. 1st edition. Hardcover. twelve plates & folding map. pp. xvii, 443. 8vo. Bound in original gilt decorated green cloth. Gilt vignette on front board and gilt lettering and design to spine. This copy contains all twelve plates, and the coloured folding map of Turkestan, which is creased, a few small (repaired) closed tears. The original spine has recently been professionally re-backed and the hinges reinforced. The boards show wear and soiling, but the contents are very tight...
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Snow On The Equator -- 1937 FIRST UK EDITION -- ADVANCE PROOF COPY?
by TILMAN, H. W
London: G. Bell & Sons Ltd, 1937. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Very Good/Near Fine. 1937 FIRST UK EDITION. Original wrappers with untrimmed fore-edge and untrimmed bottom edge, publisher's printed "corrections" slip tipped-in at page xi. This is likely an advance proof copy or review copy though there is nothing printed on the jacket or book indicating it. The cover consists entirely of the original dust jacket, with complete flaps, adhered directly to the spine of the text...
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CA$869.21
Between Oxus and Jumna
by Toynbee, Arnold J
London: Oxford University Press, 1961. Cloth/dust jacket Octavo. Hardcover. Very good/good. blue cloth, gilt lettering, dust jacket unclipped, 211 pp, first edition, dj slightly soiled Standard shipping (no tracking) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders.
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CA$29.72
Cho Oyu -- SIGNED By Herbert Tichy
by Tichy, Herbert
Wien: Ullstein, 1957. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. TEXT IN GERMAN. FIRST PRINTING of the First Austrian Edition (first printing in any language). SIGNED by Herbert Tichy on the title page. The book measures 225mm tall x 149mm, and has 222 pages, 36 b/w photos, 4 color photos, sketch, EP maps overlaid on b/w photo. CONDITION: The book is in fine condition with clean covers, no rubbing, tight binding, other than the author's signature there are no previous owner marks or...
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CA$346.58
Tournament of Shadows: The Great Game and the Race for Empire in Central Asia
by Meyer, Karl E. & Shareen Blair Brysac
Washington, DC : Counterpoint, 1999. Softcover. Good. Paperback, illustrated with b/w photographs, 8vo.
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CA$16.34
Himalayan Passage. Seven Months In The High Country Of Tibet, Nepal, China, India, & Pakistan
by Schmidt, Jeremy
Seattle: The Mountaineers, 1991. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. FIRST PRINITNG of First Edition. The book is in fine condition with no previous owner marks or writing on any pages, clean, no foxing, tight binding. The dust jacket is in fine condition with no tears, no chips, clean. The book measures 229mm tall x 155mm, and has 302 pages, 49 color photos, 6 maps (including EP map). PHOTOS ARE OF THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING OFFERED.
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CA$27.73
Beyond the Caspian: a Naturalist in Central Asia
by Carruthers, Douglas
Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. Red cloth titled in gilt. Stated first published 1949. Ex-private library copy with their bookplate and small sticker to title page, pencilled call number; no other library markings. Light soil to top edge, softened points. Frontis and 22 plates. Folding color map. The scarce DJ in mylar is price clipped, soiled, with slight wear to points. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
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CA$173.27
CHINESE CENTRAL ASIA: An Account of Travels in Northern Kashmir and Chinese Turkestan
by Skrine, C.P
Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 1986. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. Reprint of the 1926 first edition, with an introduction by Alastair Lamb. Sir Clarmont Percival Skrine (1888=1974) was British Consul-General at Kashgar during the early 1920s. With his wife, he made a journey into the largely unknown valleys of the Kungar Alps in Chinese Turkestan, during which he mapped, photographed, and surveyed the country. Color frontispiece, with numerous plates (some folding) and a color folding map. 306...
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