scholarly journals Persian and Turkic from Kazan to Tobolsk: Literary Frontiers in Muslim Inner Asia

2019 ◽  
pp. 131-155
Author(s):  
Devin DeWeese ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Inner Asia

Prince Henri d'Orleans (1867–1901): geographical and botanical exploration between inner Asia and southwest China

1978 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 399-399
Author(s):  
WILLIAM GARDENER
Keyword(s):  
Southwest China ◽  
Western China ◽  
Left Bank ◽  
Inner Asia ◽  
Botanical Exploration ◽  
Western Yunnan ◽  
Westerly Direction ◽  
Chinese Province ◽  
The Right ◽  
North Western

Prince Henri d'Orleans, precluded by French law from serving his country in the profession of arms, had his attention turned early towards exploration. In 1889, accompanied by the experienced traveller Gabriel Bonvalet, he set out from Paris to reach Indo-China overland by way of Central Asia, Tibet and western and south western China. The journey made contributions in the problems of the whereabouts of Lap Nor and the configuration of the then unexplored northern plateau of Tibet; and in botany it produced some species new to science. The party reached Indo-China in 1890. In 1895, having organised an expedition better equipped for topographical survey and for investigations in the fields of natural history and ethnography, Prince Henri set out from Hanoi with the intention of exploring the Mekong through the Chinese province of Yunnan. After proceeding up the left bank of the Salween for a brief part of its course and then alternating between the right and left banks of the Mekong as far up as Tzeku, the party found it advisable to enter Tibet in a north westerly direction through the province of Chamdo and instead crossed the south eastern extremity of the country, the Zayul, by a difficult track which led them to the country of the Hkamti Shans in present day Upper Burma, and thence to India completing a journey of 2000 miles, "1500 of which had been previously untrodden" (Prince Henri). West of the Mekong, the journey established that the Salween, which some geographers had claimed took its rise in or near north western Yunnan, in fact rose well north in Tibet, and that, contrary to previous opinions, the principal headwater of the Irrawaddy rose no further north than latitude 28°30'. Botanical collections were confined to Yunnan, where the tracks permitted mule transport, and they produced a number of species new to science and extended the range of distribution of species already known.

(A review) P. P. Dmitriev. Mammals in Steppe Ecosistem of Inner Asia. Moscaw. 2006. 224 p.

2007 ◽  
pp. 108-110
Author(s):  
Z. V. Karamysheva
Keyword(s):  
Inner Asia ◽  
Structure And Dynamics

This book is of particular interest for specialists investigating natural biogeocenosis system: the interaction of various components (biological, bio-inert and inert), the characteristics of their structure and dynamics, patterns of functioning.

Caravan Routes of Inner Asia: The Third "Asia Lecture": Discussion

1928 ◽  
Vol 72 (6) ◽  
pp. 528
Author(s):  
Charles Close ◽  
Francis Younghusband ◽  
Lord Ronaldshay
Keyword(s):  
Inner Asia ◽  
The Third

Index to Inner Asia Volume 10, 2008

Inner Asia ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 373-374
Keyword(s):  
Inner Asia
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