The Duab of Turkestan. A Physiographic Sketch and 

 Account of Some Travels. By W. Rickmer Rickmers. 



Large Royal 8vo. pp. xvi + 564. With 37 maps and diagrams, and 

 170 illustrations. Price 30.f. net. 



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Times. — Mr Rickmers is a geographical explorer of the highest qualifications. 



There is very little ordinarily included within the province of 



physical science which is not dealt with expertly in this book, and 

 nothing concerning mountains fails to be treated with the full knowledge 



and sure touch of a master To an author who offers instruction, 



amusement, vivid pen-pictures of unfamiliar and fascinating scenes and 

 such magnificent sun-pictures as the telescopic panorama of the glaciated 

 range of Peter the Great, one ought only to be grateful. 



Daily Chronicle. — Mr Rickmers applies the name of Duab of Turkestan to 

 the land between the two rivers (du, two ; ab, water ; analogy, Punjab), 

 between the Amu-darya and the Sir-darya, or Oxus and Jaxartes. The 

 area contains everything that is typical of and common to various sub- 

 divided conceptions, such as Turkestan, Central, Middle or Inner Asia, 



Turan, Iran, Bokhara, Kashgaria, Tarim, etc., etc Full of interesting 



information of climate, tillage, irrigation, grazing and nomadism, plants 

 and animals, folk-lore and religion, monuments and art, politics and 

 industries, and carefully thought out geographical and historical data for 

 the serious student, Mr Rickmers's book is exceedingly attractive. 



Westminster Gazette. — Mr Rickmers's book is pleasantly seasoned with the 

 incidents of Eastern travel, with accounts of climbs which will appeal to 

 mountaineers, and many a picturesque description of the singular but 

 imposing scenery. On the other hand, it is a most careful and scientific 

 study, illustrated on every other page with excellent and well-chosen 

 photographs of the physiography of this region. 



Saturday Review. — A book, eloquent, enthusiastic, and learned, grandly illus- 

 trated, complete with scientific essays, glossary, bibliography, and a subject 

 index that indicates the immense scope of his observations and interests. 



Mr Rickmers's broad elucidation, during the course of the narrative, 



of the physical geography of the Duab and its Asian significance is 

 masterly writing that will repay the attention of others besides critical 

 scholars. Apart too from this main scientific inquiry, Mr Rickmers has 

 plenty to say that is more than merely interesting and amusing to the 

 general reader, for he conveys from the very first pages an impression of 

 sound judgment and also his feeling for the romance of travel. 



Outlook. — Although much of the book is devoted to the physiography of the 

 Duab, it is also and always a delightful description of travel, and the 



general reader may be assured of agreeable entertainment A notable 



feature of the book is its superb illustrations, which, though reproductions 

 of photographs, are astonishingly artistic in treatment. 



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