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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... Merv and Herat , " " The Russian Advance towards India , " " Merv the Queen of the World , " " The Russian Campaign against the Turcomans , " " Grodekoff ' Ride to Herat , " " The Russian Railway to India , " " The Russian Annexation of ...
... Merv and Herat , " " The Russian Advance towards India , " " Merv the Queen of the World , " " The Russian Campaign against the Turcomans , " " Grodekoff ' Ride to Herat , " " The Russian Railway to India , " " The Russian Annexation of ...
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... Merv , many newspaper - writers and authors have dis- played their considerate appreciation by appropriating both opinions and facts , without the slightest acknow- ledgment , and have passed them off as their own . Two flagrant ...
... Merv , many newspaper - writers and authors have dis- played their considerate appreciation by appropriating both opinions and facts , without the slightest acknow- ledgment , and have passed them off as their own . Two flagrant ...
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... Merv , " and to the two recent pamphlets on Merv and Herat republished at the end of this book , in the Appendix , he will agree with me , I think , that it was hardly fair , after making such extensive use of the data and reiterating ...
... Merv , " and to the two recent pamphlets on Merv and Herat republished at the end of this book , in the Appendix , he will agree with me , I think , that it was hardly fair , after making such extensive use of the data and reiterating ...
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... Merv - Persons Composing the Secret Russian Expedition to Cabul - Their Route through Central Asia - Samuel , the Interpreter , bound to Secrecy - What he saw at Cabul - English Soldiers with the Ameer's Troops - Loot from Geok Tepé ...
... Merv - Persons Composing the Secret Russian Expedition to Cabul - Their Route through Central Asia - Samuel , the Interpreter , bound to Secrecy - What he saw at Cabul - English Soldiers with the Ameer's Troops - Loot from Geok Tepé ...
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... Merv - The Principal Fact to be Remembered in regard to Tiflis - The Armenians : Their Present and Future - Not so tame in Spirit as commonly imagined - Russian Interest in the Armenian Question - The Caucasus Deficit PAGE 128 · CHAPTER ...
... Merv - The Principal Fact to be Remembered in regard to Tiflis - The Armenians : Their Present and Future - Not so tame in Spirit as commonly imagined - Russian Interest in the Armenian Question - The Caucasus Deficit PAGE 128 · CHAPTER ...
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