Unknown Mongolia : a record of travel and exploration in north-west Mongolia and Dzungaria . FOREWORD The writer of this book, turning aside from the morefamiliar pathways of recent travel and reverting to thetaste of an earlier generation, has selected a little-knownportion of Central Asia as the scene of the explorationsherein described. If a point be taken on or about the45th parallel of latitude midway between the Caspianand the Sea of Japan, we shall approximately strike theregion which he traversed, surveyed, and mapped, withthe patience and thoroughness of the true geographer,during the
Unknown Mongolia : a record of travel and exploration in north-west Mongolia and Dzungaria . FOREWORD The writer of this book, turning aside from the morefamiliar pathways of recent travel and reverting to thetaste of an earlier generation, has selected a little-knownportion of Central Asia as the scene of the explorationsherein described. If a point be taken on or about the45th parallel of latitude midway between the Caspianand the Sea of Japan, we shall approximately strike theregion which he traversed, surveyed, and mapped, withthe patience and thoroughness of the true geographer,during the years 1910 and 1911. The regions in question are bounded by the Siberiandominions of Russia on the north; they include the little-known basin of the Upper Yenisei River, which ourauthor explored and describes with genuine enthusiasm ;they embrace successively the habitat of the WesternMongolian tribes and the plains of Dzungaria, and they areclosed on the south by the long palisade of Tian Shan orCelestial Mountains. On the east they are shut off fromthe world and from the rest of China
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