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In Russian Turkestan : a garden of Asia and its people
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- Date
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- 1903
- Publisher
- London: G. Allen
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- 1903
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- Author
- Meakin, Annette M. B.
- Publisher
- London: G. Allen
- Date
- 1903
- Description of Original
- xvii, 316 pages : 16 plates (including frontispiece), folded map ; 20 cm.
- Format
- Text
- Language
- English
- [Cover]
- The author in Sart dress
- [Title Page]
- To her Imperial Majesty Alexandra Feodorovna
- Preface
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Part I: The land of Tamerlane / Chapter I: The Sarts
- Chapter II: Where water is precious
- Chapter III: Trees and fruits
- Chapter IV: Cultivation of cotton
- Chapter V: The silk industry
- Chapter VI: Government of native towns
- Chapter VII: Sart towns
- Chapter VIII: The strictest Mohammedans in the world
- Chapter IX: Sart colleges
- Chapter X: Sart schools
- Chapter XI: Childhood
- Chapter XII: Sart women
- Chapter XIII: Marriage
- Chapter XIV: Sart cooking
- Chapter XV: Native baths
- Chapter XVI: Common ailments
- Chapter XVII: Israel in Central Asia
- Chapter XVIII: Afghans and others
- Chapter XIX: Animals and insects
- Chapter XX: Sart fairy tales
- Chapter XXI: Some native industries
- Chapter XXII: Tamasha
- Chapter XXIII: The Kirgiz
- Part II: Reminiscences / Chapter I: Tashkent and Samarkand
- Chapter II: Kokand, Chyust, and Namangan
- Chapter III: Margelan and Andijan
- Chapter IV: My first visit to Bokhara
- Chapter V: My second visit to Bokhara
- Chapter VI: Among the Tekke Turkomans
- Index
- [Map of] Russian Turkestan
- [Cover]