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The great Russian explorer Nikolay Przhevalsky (1839-1888) made an indelible contribution to the world's atlases, and its store of zoological and botanical knowledge, as a consequence of his four arduous and dangerous expeditions through the Central Asia of Western Mongolia, Eastern Turkestan and Northern Tibet. Donald Rayfield's biography of Przhevalsky - first published in 1976 and drawing on the exporer's diaries, letters, and published works - tells the thrilling story of the explorer's groundbreaking journeys, undertaken in an age of extreme political sensitivity between Russia, China and Britain. A rich portrait emerges of an extraordinary Byronic character who was ill-suited to civilisation but much at home with the loneliness and hardship of the nomadic life. A rigorous army officer and a phenomenal shot, gifted also with a photographic memory, Przhevalsky became one of the most widely-admired men in Russia, and Rayfield adroitly explores the grounds of his reputation.

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Kategoria Książki po angielsku Biography & True Stories Biography: general Biography: historical, political & military

• Pełny tytuł: Dream of Lhasa
• Podtytuł: The Life of Nikolay Przhevalsky (1839-1888), Explorer of Central Asia
• Autor: Donald Rayfield
• Język: Angielski
• Oprawa: Miękka
• Liczba stron: 242
• EAN: 9780571278077
• ISBN: 0571278078
• ID: 04624347
• Wydawca: Faber & Faber
• Waga: 318 g
• Wymiary: 216 × 138 × 19 mm
• Data wydania: 01. May 2011

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