Author: Sir Aurel SteinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Asia, Central
Languages : en
Pages : 556
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Sand-buried Ruins of Khotan
Author: Sir Aurel SteinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Asia, Central
Languages : en
Pages : 556
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Ancient Khotan, Detailed Report of Archaeological Explorations in Chinese Turkestan
Author: Mark Aurel SteinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hotan (China)
Languages : en
Pages : 728
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Bulletin
Author: The Geographical Journal
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 912
Book Description
Includes the Proceedings of the Royal geographical society, formerly pub. separately.
History of the Discovery and Exploration of Chinese Turkestan
Author: Jack Autrey DabbsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Asia, Central
Languages : en
Pages : 278
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Proceedings
Author: Indiana Academy of SciencePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 496
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The Periodical
Author: Qanat
Author: Dale LightfootPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0755650808
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 881
Book Description
Qanats are ubiquitous, yet unseen, and a clever way to create streams where none exist in nature. For 3,000 years, they have made life possible in impossible places and still sustain life and livelihoods in many countries today. After 30 years of field research, Dale Lightfoot provides the first comprehensive study of the qanat and sheds new light on their unique locations and distribution, their origins and history, their ecology, current status and use. Qanats are remarkably engineered underground aqueducts, using gravity to bring water to villages and towns where reliable flowing surface water is scarce or absent. Although an ancient technology, more than 46,000 of them still flow around the world today, with their sustainable nature making them a focus of renewed interest. Richly illustrated with images and a series of original maps, this is the most complete record to date of the locations and distribution of qanats worldwide, including examples from the Middle East, North Africa, Europe, Central Asia, China, India, Mexico and South America.
Literature of Travel and Exploration: R to Z, index
Author: Jennifer SpeakePublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9781579584405
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
Containing more than 600 entries, this valuable resource presents all aspects of travel writing. There are entries on places and routes (Afghanistan, Black Sea, Egypt, Gobi Desert, Hawaii, Himalayas, Italy, Northwest Passage, Samarkand, Silk Route, Timbuktu), writers (Isabella Bird, Ibn Battuta, Bruce Chatwin, Gustave Flaubert, Mary Kingsley, Walter Ralegh, Wilfrid Thesiger), methods of transport and types of journey (balloon, camel, grand tour, hunting and big game expeditions, pilgrimage, space travel and exploration), genres (buccaneer narratives, guidebooks, New World chronicles, postcards), companies and societies (East India Company, Royal Geographical Society, Society of Dilettanti), and issues and themes (censorship, exile, orientalism, and tourism). For a full list of entries and contributors, a generous selection of sample entries, and more, visit the Literature of Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopedia website.
Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science
Author: Indiana Academy of SciencePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 490
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