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Innermost Asia - Detailed Report of Explorations in Central Asia Kan-Su and Eastern Iran Carried out and described under the Orders of H.M. Indian Government Plates & Plans

1927

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 meetinplace 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. [...] Work on the Report steadily carried on in 1922-3 together with the completion of the Descritive Lists of Antiques made it possible for me with the sanction of Government temporarily to transfer in 1924 to the British Museum that portion of the Collection from which the specimens now comprised in the plates illustrating this Report had to be selected for reproduCtion.
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