Central Asia: Travels In Cashmere, Little Thibet And Central Asia - HB

About the book:- The narrator has compiled this narrative on the basis of three travelogues in Central Asia. The first trip was a short account of Marco Polo in 13th century. Then follows the travels of G.T. Vigue around 1835, and lastly of Robert Shaw towards the end of 1860’s. The term Central Asia in this book includes Kashmir and Ladakh (then known as little Tibet). Here partly, perhaps, on account of its remote and nearly inaccessible situation, and also partly from concurrent traditions many ethnologists have placed the original cradle of the Aryan race. It’s the chronicles of the author’s journeys as well as his novels and collections of poetry. It has contains 17 chapters and numerous illustrations to delineate the subject in a proper way. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. About the author:- Bayard Taylor was an American poet, literary critic, translator, travel author, and diplomat. His father was a wealthy farmer. Bayard received his early instruction in an academy at West Chester, Pennsylvania, and later at nearby Unionville. At the age of 17, he was apprenticed to a printer in West Chester. The influential critic and editor Rufus Wilmot Griswold encouraged him to write poetry. The volume that resulted, Ximena, or the Battle of the Sierra Morena, and other Poems, was published in 1844 and dedicated to Griswold. He traveled to Egypt, where he followed the Nile River in 1851. He also traveled in Palestine and Mediterranean countries, writing poetry based on his experiences. Toward the end of 1852, he sailed from England to Calcutta, and then to China, where he joined the expedition of Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry to Japan.