Excerpt from Wild Life Among the Koords This summary reference to the geography and his tory of this region is intended to convey to the reader a general view of the subject which the contents of the work will develop in its details. In my work, La Turquie sous le Regne d'abdul-aziz, published in 1868, I was compelled to sacrifice, in a great measure, geographical and ethnological questions to paramount political interests. The highly flattering testimonial, if however, which Sir Roderick Murchison, President of the ...
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Excerpt from Wild Life Among the Koords This summary reference to the geography and his tory of this region is intended to convey to the reader a general view of the subject which the contents of the work will develop in its details. In my work, La Turquie sous le Regne d'abdul-aziz, published in 1868, I was compelled to sacrifice, in a great measure, geographical and ethnological questions to paramount political interests. The highly flattering testimonial, if however, which Sir Roderick Murchison, President of the Royal Geographical Society, granted to this work on account of the geographical and ethnological details which might be gleaned from its contents, has encouraged me to undertake the present publication, trusting that, through my exertions, a gleam of light may be thrown on the present con dition of that portion of the globe which was at one time the seat of mighty empires, but is now sunk under the weight of ignorance and barbarism. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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