Author: Thomas Henry DyerPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385401828
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.
On Imitative Art. Its Principles and Progress. With Preliminary Remarks on Beauty, Sublimity, and Taste
Author: Thomas Henry DyerPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385401828
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.
The Westminster Review
Author: A Complete Latin Grammar for the Use of Students
Author: John William DonaldsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Latin language
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
The Trottings of a Tenderfoot; Or, A Visit to the Columbian Fiords
Author: Clive Phillipps-WolleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Adventure and adventurers
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Almanzor and Almahide. Marriage à la mode. The assignation
Author: John DrydenLives of the Princesses of Wales
Author: Barbara Clay FinchPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385314275
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
Amboyna. The state of innocence and the fall of man. Aurung-Zebe. All for love
Author: John DrydenThe Proverbs of John Heywood
Author: John HeywoodPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Proverbs, English
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
The Wedgwood Handbook
Author: Eliza MeteyardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pottery
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
Russian Projects Against India from the Czar Peter to General Skobeleff
Author: Henry Sutherland EdwardsPublisher: London, Remington & Company
ISBN:
Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Henry Sutherland Edwards (1828-1906) was a British author and journalist who over a long career worked in a wide range of genres, producing dramatic pieces, fiction, and serious journalism. In 1856 he went to Russia as correspondent of the Illustrated Times to cover the coronation of Tsar Alexander II. He remained in Moscow to study the language and married the daughter of a Scottish engineer who had settled in Russia. Sutherland developed a lifelong interest in Russian subjects, and wrote numerous essays and articles and several books on Russian themes. Russian Projects against India from the Czar Peter to General Skobeleff is a history of Russian interest in and expansion into Central Asia from the time of Peter the Great (1672-1725) to the late 19th century. Echoing what was a widely held view in Great Britain at the time, Sutherland writes in the preface: "Russian expeditions in Central Asia (supported at critical moments by intriguers in Persia and Afghanistan) have always been undertaken, not with a view to an improved frontier, the Russian frontier on the Central Asian side never having been threatened; nor for commercial purposes, the exports and imports between Russia and the Khanates being of the most trifling value, and quite out of proportion to the cost of occupying and administering the Russian possessions in Central Asia: but simply in order to place Russia in a position to threaten and, on a fitting opportunity, attack India." Among the Russian expeditions covered in detail by Sutherland are General Vasily Alexseevich Perovsky's expedition of 1839 to Khiva; Colonel Nikolai Pavlovich Ignatiev's mission of 1858 to Khiva and Bukhara; and General Konstantin Petrovich von Kaufman's expedition to Khiva of 1872-73. The concluding chapter, "Projects for the Invasion of India," discusses several different schemes put forward by Russian military writers in the second half of the 19th century for Russian advances on India through Afghanistan. The book contains a fold-out color map of the Russo-Afghan frontier.