The Region of the Eternal Fire: an Account of a Journey to the Petroleum Region of the Caspian in 1883W. H. Allen and Company, 1884 - 413 páginas |
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... England and America - The Piracy of English Inventions by Russian Engineers in the Caspian Region -The First Liquid Fuel Steamer in the Caspian - Shpakovsky's Succes : -Improvements Effected by Lenz , the Inventor of the Apparatus now ...
... England and America - The Piracy of English Inventions by Russian Engineers in the Caspian Region -The First Liquid Fuel Steamer in the Caspian - Shpakovsky's Succes : -Improvements Effected by Lenz , the Inventor of the Apparatus now ...
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... England has just been established , and all that is needed is that English men of business should avail themselves of the new opening before Continental rivals appear upon the scene . I left London at half - past eight on Wednesday ...
... England has just been established , and all that is needed is that English men of business should avail themselves of the new opening before Continental rivals appear upon the scene . I left London at half - past eight on Wednesday ...
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... England , and are certainly preferable to the older boats on the Calais route , on one of which I was last year ill from the time I left Dover until I reached Calais . On the same boat I should have probably been ill again , but in the ...
... England , and are certainly preferable to the older boats on the Calais route , on one of which I was last year ill from the time I left Dover until I reached Calais . On the same boat I should have probably been ill again , but in the ...
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... England , thanks to whose agreeable society the six hours ' journey from Minden to Berlin was rapidly performed without any feeling of fatigue , and I was really sorry he could not accompany me further . There was one remark he made ...
... England , thanks to whose agreeable society the six hours ' journey from Minden to Berlin was rapidly performed without any feeling of fatigue , and I was really sorry he could not accompany me further . There was one remark he made ...
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... England . Had I not met him at Cracow he would have probably gone to Constantinople first , but he changed his plans on hearing I was bound for Baku , and shaped his course for the Caucasus . Thanks to this circumstance , I had as far ...
... England . Had I not met him at Cracow he would have probably gone to Constantinople first , but he changed his plans on hearing I was bound for Baku , and shaped his course for the Caucasus . Thanks to this circumstance , I had as far ...
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Afghan Afghanistan American oil annexation of Merv Apsheron peninsula Armenian army Askabad Author Baku petroleum Balakhani Batoum Black Sea Bokhara Cabul Candahar Caspian region Caspian Sea Caucasus Central Asia Charles Marvin coal Company convey copecks Cossack Crown 8vo crude petroleum depôts Edition Empire engineer England English Europe export feet firms fleet fountain frontier gallons of oil Geok Tepé German Government ground Herat Illustrations India journey kerosine Kertch Khiva Kizil Arvat Krasnovodsk liquid fuel London Ludwig Nobel Merv miles military million naphtha Nobel Brothers Novorossisk oasis Odessa officers operations passed passengers Persian pipe-line port possesses Post 8vo Poti Quetta refined refineries reservoirs road roubles route running Russian railway Sarakhs Sevastopol Skobeleff spouted station steam steamers supply Surakhani tank-cars Tiflis tion tons town trade Transcaspian Transcaspian railway Transcaucasian Railway traveller troops Tsaritzin Turcoman Turkestan vessels Volga vols W. H. ALLEN WATERLOO PLACE whole
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