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Travels in Central Asia

Ármin Vámbéry
Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
Author
Vámbéry Ármin
Published
1864
Language
ingiliscə, macarca

Hungarian Turkologist Ármin Vámbéry's account of his 1863 journey, disguised as a dervish, from Tehran across the Turkmen desert to Khiva, Bukhara and Samarkand. One of the first books to introduce Europe to the language and life of the Central Asian Turks; its text is free in open libraries.

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