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...Ferdinand D. Lessing The Gobi desert . By Mildred Cable and Francesca French . New York : Macmillan Company , 1944 . 300 p. 1 colored frontispiece. 48 illustrations from photographs. $3.50. 238 THE FAR EASTERN QUARTERLY except for details on the organization of air-lines and air...

...Nicholas Poppe Po goram i pustyniam Srednei Azii . (Through the Mountains and Deserts of Middle Asia) . By V. A. Obruchev . Moscow-Leningrad , Academy of Sciences of the USSR ; Popular Scientific Series, 1948 . 244 p. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1952 1952...

...George B. Cressey Abstract More than one third of Asia is dry. From the Red Sea almost to the Pacific are a series of deserts and semideserts, the product of continentality, mountain patterns, and atmospheric circulation. Two areas of extreme aridity are present in die Rub al Khali of southern...

...Herold J. Wiens Abstract Views of desert regions of the world as areas with little productive use for the support of mankind have always been tempered by the optimism expressed in the phrase “to make the desert bloom like the rose.” We also know that the concept of the “Garden of Eden” was evolved...

... a semiarid and desert zone to the west and a more watered region in the east. VOL. XXXIII, No. 1 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES NOVEMBER 1973 The Economic, Political and Social Dimensions of an Indian State: A Factor Analysis of District Data for Rajasthan JOHN ADAMS and BALU BUMB RAJASTHAN is a large, unusually...

...Robert A. Rupen Abstract Leading characters in this novel are “Zhamtso,” head of the Mongolian Scientific Committee; “Andreἴ Makarovich Turanov,” a Russian geographer, “Roy Webster,” leader of an American expedition in the Gobi Desert; and “Nakamura,” a Japanese officer spying in Outer Mongolia...

..., and deserts transformed into fragrant groves; and where verses in Tamil cured fevers, stopped floods, and impaled enemies. It was a world in which poets, because of their mastery of Tamil, lorded over the gods themselves, and in which celestials vied with each other to win the affections of the language...

... of insufficient materials. The oasis of Turfan, lying on the Silk Road between China and India, contains the Astana-Karakhoja graveyards that have been excavated by different explorers, both Chinese and not, since the beginning of the century. The tombs contain many goods preserved by the dry desert climate...

... (Hill Collection, I, 114) mentions these desertions but docs not give any figures. Grey, however, witnessed these desertions. 36 Holwell to Fort St. George Council, August 3, 1756, Hill Collection, I, 185; Holwell to Fort St. George Council, July 17, 1756, Hill Collection, I, 114...

..., Index. $11.00. The emancipation of slaves in 1863 in the Dutch colony of Surinam on the northern coast of South America led to a labor shortage as Negro ex-slaves worked grudgingly or deserted the plantations. In the following decade, as a result, almost two-fifths of the plantation land (devoted...

..., too, are vivid. In a series of photographs, Sonya Imin lays down the doppa —a traditional Uyghur hat made of cotton or silk—in the Sonoran Desert near the US-Mexico border to facilitate “a visual dialogue from the standpoint of a guest in one desert, while invoking memories and connections to [her...

... in Mongolia in the introduction, Endicott describes the various ecological and vegetational zones in Mongolia, and how terrain, climate, insects, availability of wood, and other factors shape the differing patterns of khangai (partially wooded mountain steppe), steppe, and gobi (habitable desert and semi...

... Desert. The appendix lists dozens of locations where border crossings occurred throughout this vast region, but none of them is discussed in the text. She does not explain how the locations of cities, rivers, roads, deserts, populations, or passes influenced crossings, nor what was involved when border...

..., but nowhere are such matters really developed. For one thing, he has lived in the area so long as to take for granted much that might otherwise impress one as particularly novel or important. For another, his interests are primarily political. His inspection of the Thai Development, Pakistan's great desert...

... for granted much that might otherwise impress one as particularly novel or important. For another, his interests are primarily political. His inspection of the Thai Development, Pakistan's great desert reclamation project, was for him just a dusty detour delaying his entry into the mountains. As a travelogue...

.... Foreign Geography Information Series No. 4. 1951 VI, 84, bibliography, glossary, 50 cents. Terrain and Climates of Korea and Adjacent Lands. Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama: Air University Research Studies Institute, Arctic, Desert, Tropic Information Center, ADTIC Publication G-l02. January 1952. VII, 27...

... in 2000, which now forms the core of the atlas. All maps are in color and show basic topographical features, including marshes, escarpments, deserts, dry lakes, and riverbeds. Produced in a large format (28 x 37 mm) on the highest quality paper, the work is sturdily bound, an important consideration...

... politicians and civilians along with profiteers and carpetbaggers, just as there were well disciplined and orderly troops as well as deserters and looters. Beneath the veneer of the gilded military and enthusiastic home population was a nation at war whose faults, in the end, made it more akin to the 'modern...

... at the British desertion of their "allies." He holds that the Unionist Party in office under Sir Sikander Hayat Khan failed to pace its legislative proposals and enacted many laws beneficial to its constituency the agriculturists soon after taking office. When the crunch came during World War II, after...