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WE are glad that this notable contribution to geography has been reprinted from the Geographical Journal, and published as a volume handy in size and attractive in format. For ages the Pamirs and the Oxus have impressed the imagination of humanity, and though fancy has now to give way to facts, “the mystery and romance of the fabled Roof of the World having been extinguished by the theodolite and the compass, and superseded by the accurate delineation of scientific maps,” this celebrated region is full of interest—how full can only be understood by those who read the present monograph, which happily combines historical records with personal experience.
The Pamirs and the Source of the Oxus.
By the Right Hon. George N. Curzon Pp. 83. (London: The Royal Geographical Society.)
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The Pamirs and the Source of the Oxus. Nature 56, 101 (1897). https://doi.org/10.1038/056101c0
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