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“CENTRAL ASIA” used to conjure up in the imagination thoughts of lonely and mysterious frontiers between three great Asiatic Empires, of strange doings in unheard-of valleys on the Pamirs, of long-dead conquerors, and of strange capitals at the back of the world. Even now, in 1920, the heart of Asia is a storm centre, for it forms the meeting-place of the civilisations of the remote past—China; of the present—Great Britain; and of the future?—Bolshevism.
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CARRUTHERS, D. The Heart of a Continent1. Nature 105, 330–332 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/105330a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/105330a0