Download or read book Through the Heart of Asia Volume 1 written by Gabriel Bonvalot and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-08 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1889 publication describes a French explorer's attempts to reach India by travelling across Afghanistan, and his eventual success.
Download or read book The Heart of Asia written by Edward Denison Ross and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-09-10 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1899, The Heart of Asia is a definitive history of Central Asia from pre-history to the contemporary machinations of the Russian empire. The book is valuable not only because of the quality of the historical work on the early period, but also because of the unique picture that it gives of contemporary views on the potential for Anglo-Russian conflict, at a time when the Russian Empire was Britain's closest rival for Asian hegemony. Scholars of modern Russia and Central Asia will find much that echoes, and indeed drives, more recent events. Includes 34 illustrations and two maps.
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Download or read book Literature of Travel and Exploration R to Z index written by Jennifer Speake and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2003 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing more than 600 entries, this valuable resource presents all aspects of travel writing. There are entries on places and routes (Afghanistan, Black Sea, Egypt, Gobi Desert, Hawaii, Himalayas, Italy, Northwest Passage, Samarkand, Silk Route, Timbuktu), writers (Isabella Bird, Ibn Battuta, Bruce Chatwin, Gustave Flaubert, Mary Kingsley, Walter Ralegh, Wilfrid Thesiger), methods of transport and types of journey (balloon, camel, grand tour, hunting and big game expeditions, pilgrimage, space travel and exploration), genres (buccaneer narratives, guidebooks, New World chronicles, postcards), companies and societies (East India Company, Royal Geographical Society, Society of Dilettanti), and issues and themes (censorship, exile, orientalism, and tourism). For a full list of entries and contributors, a generous selection of sample entries, and more, visit the Literature of Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopedia website.
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Download or read book Red Shambhala written by Andrei Znamenski and published by Quest Books. This book was released on 2012-12-19 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many know of Shambhala, the Tibetan Buddhist legendary land of spiritual bliss popularized by the film, Shangri-La. But few may know of the role Shambhala played in Russian geopolitics in the early twentieth century. Perhaps the only one on the subject, Andrei Znamenski’s book presents a wholly different glimpse of early Soviet history both erudite and fascinating. Using archival sources and memoirs, he explores how spiritual adventurers, revolutionaries, and nationalists West and East exploited Shambhala to promote their fanatical schemes, focusing on the Bolshevik attempt to use Mongol-Tibetan prophecies to railroad Communism into inner Asia. We meet such characters as Gleb Bokii, the Bolshevik secret police commissar who tried to use Buddhist techniques to conjure the ideal human; and Nicholas Roerich, the Russian painter who, driven by his otherworldly Master and blackmailed by the Bolshevik secret police, posed as a reincarnation of the Dalai Lama to unleash religious war in Tibet. We also learn of clandestine activities of the Bolsheviks from the Mongol-Tibetan Section of the Communist International who took over Mongolia and then, dressed as lama pilgrims, tried to set Tibet ablaze; and of their opponent, Ja-Lama, an “avenging lama” fond of spilling blood during his tantra rituals.
Download or read book Literature of Travel and Exploration written by Jennifer Speake and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-05-12 with total page 1425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing more than 600 entries, this valuable resource presents all aspects of travel writing. There are entries on places and routes (Afghanistan, Black Sea, Egypt, Gobi Desert, Hawaii, Himalayas, Italy, Northwest Passage, Samarkand, Silk Route, Timbuktu), writers (Isabella Bird, Ibn Battuta, Bruce Chatwin, Gustave Flaubert, Mary Kingsley, Walter Ralegh, Wilfrid Thesiger), methods of transport and types of journey (balloon, camel, grand tour, hunting and big game expeditions, pilgrimage, space travel and exploration), genres (buccaneer narratives, guidebooks, New World chronicles, postcards), companies and societies (East India Company, Royal Geographical Society, Society of Dilettanti), and issues and themes (censorship, exile, orientalism, and tourism). For a full list of entries and contributors, a generous selection of sample entries, and more, visit the Literature of Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopedia website.
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Download or read book Turkmenistan Strategies of Power Dilemmas of Development written by Sebastien Peyrouse and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-02-12 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first comprehensive introduction to contemporary Turkmenistan in English.
Download or read book In Search of Cathay written by George Daniel Bishop and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Account of the travels of a Jesuit mainly through the countries of South Asia and China.
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Download or read book The Silk Road written by Frances Wood and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This gorgeously illustrated oversized book brings the history and cultures of the Silk Road alive -- from its beginnings to the present day -- covering more than 5000 years.
Download or read book Head and Heart written by Mary Storm and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-08-12 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extensive study of self-sacrificial images in Indian art, this book examines concepts such as head-offering, human sacrifice, blood, suicide, valour, self-immolation, and self-giving in the context of religion and politics to explore why these images were produced and how they became paradigms of heroism.
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Download or read book Reversibility of Chronic Disease and Hypersensitivity Volume 4 written by William J. Rea and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2017-11-22 with total page 990 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reversibility of Chronic Disease and Hypersensitivity, Volume 4: The Environmental Aspects of Chemical Sensitivity is the fourth of an encyclopedic five-volume set describing the basic physiology, chemical sensitivity, diagnosis, and treatment of chronic degenerative disease studied in a 5x less polluted controlled environment. This text focuses on treatment techniques, strategies, protocols, prescriptions, and technologies. Distinguishing itself from previous works on chemical sensitivity, it explains newly understood mechanisms of chronic disease and hypersensitivity, involving core molecular function. The authors discuss new information on ground regulation system, genetics, the autonomic nervous system, and immune and non-immune functions. The book also includes the latest technology and cutting-edge techniques, numerous figures, and supporting research.
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Download or read book written by ها جون تشانغ and published by Sahla Books. This book was released on 2023-01-01 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: كتاب "ثلاثة وعشرون شيئًا لا يخبرونك بها حول الرأسمالية" أشبه مـا يكـون بكتالوج حيوي لفهم وإدارة حياتنا، وحل كثير من الألغاز التي تحيط بها. ولأننا جميعـًا نـعـيـش فـي كنـف النظام الرأسمالي، ووفـق شـروطه، ومساحاته التـي يرسمها، فقراءة هذا الكتاب، والإبحار في فصوله ليست بالترف الفكري. ظهر الكتاب الذي ألفه الاقتصادي الكوري الجنوبي Ha-Joon Chang إلى النـور فـي وقـت مشهود؛ فـي أعقـاب الأزمة الاقتصادية العالميـة عـام (ألفين وثمانية)، والتي اعتبرها الكاتب ثاني أكبر أزمة اقتصادية في تاريخ البشرية بعد كساد الثلاثينيات العظيم في القرن الماضي. لم يكن مستغربًا من تصدر كتابه قوائم الأكثر مبيعًا، وقد طرق كاتبه على الحديد وهو ساخن، حيث لا صوت بين البشر يعلو على صوت الأزمة الاقتصادية العالمية التي هزت العالم آنذاك.