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Innermost Asia - Detailed Report of Explorations in Central Asia Kan-Su and Eastern Īrān Carried Out and Described Under the Orders of H. M. Indian Government Text

1927

WHOSE LABOURS IN THE FIELD AND STUDY ILLUMINATED THE ANCIENT HISTORY OF ASIA THIS RECORD IS INSCRIBED IN GRATEFUL REMEMBRANCE AND SINCERE ADMIRATION FOR THE EXPLORER THE SCHOLAR AND THE MANINTRODUCTION THE plan of the explorations recorded in these volumes was based upon the experiences and results of my travels during the years 1906-8. [...] These maps have come to comprise a vast but well-defined region of innermost Asia which by its present conditions and by its important role in the past as the meeting-place of the civilizations of India China and the West is attracting more and more the attention both of the geographer and of the historical student. [...] Rapid as was necessarily the journey of close on boo miles to the Lop Desert the main goal of that winter's explorations it allowed me to revisit the areas of ancient settlements abandoned to the desert beyond Domoko and the termination of the Niya river. [...] Moving between the western foot of the Kuruk-tagh and the Konche-darya which had once fed the 'Dry River' I examined the remains marking the line by which the ancient highway from China gained the string of oases along the nortern rim of the Tarim basin (Chap. [...] After my return in 1916 from the explorations recorded in these volumes I was placed on special duty for the purpose first of completing Serindia the detailed report of my second expedition and then of carrying through the varied work entailed by the elaboration and record of the results of the third expedition.
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Frontmatter
i-xxx Aurel Stein view
Chapter I Through Chilas Darel and Tangir
1-35 Aurel Stein view
Chapter II From Yāsīn to Kāshgar
36-65 Aurel Stein view
Chapter III from Kashgar to the Khotan River
66-97 Aurel Stein view
Chapter IV From Khotan to Lop
98-155 Aurel Stein view
Chapter V On the Way to Lop-Nōr
156-179 Aurel Stein view
Chapter VI Remains of an Ancient Delta
180-213 Aurel Stein view
Chapter VII Remains of Ancient Lou-Lan
214-280 Aurel Stein view
Chapter VIII The Search for the Ancient Chinese High Road
281-312 Aurel Stein view
Chapter IX To the Su-Lo-Ho Delta
313-342 Aurel Stein view
Chapter X To Tun-Huang and An-Hsi
343-370 Aurel Stein view
Chapter XI In Search of the Limes to Su-Chou
371-403 Aurel Stein view
Chapter XII From Su-Chou to the Limes of Mao-Mei
404-428 Aurel Stein view
Chapter XIII The Etsin-Gol Delta and the Ruins of Khara-Khoto
429-506 Aurel Stein view
Chapter XIV To Kan-Chou and the Central Nan-Shan
507-521 Aurel Stein view
Chapter XV Across the Pei-Shady to Barkul
522-547 Aurel Stein view

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