Author Description

"The following work on Bokhara to which I have given the title "Journeys and Studies in Bokhara", and in which I have endeavoured to give a survey of this country, is one of the results of my journeys in Mid and Central Asia in 1896-97 and 1898-99. It does not claim to be an exhaustive work on this interesting Oriental realm, but I have thought that some of the information given here might contribute to the knowledge of these regions which have been too little explored hitherto; even if Bokhara is now the vassal state of Russia, it has up to our own time gone on in its own old-fashioned ways, and the European influence perceptible here and there is but superficial"--