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| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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ACKU |
| 041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE |
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eng |
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G463. |
| Item number |
C879 1923 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Curzon of Kedleston, 1859-1925. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Tales of travel / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
by the Marquess Curzon of Kedleston. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc |
London : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
Hodder and Stoughton Limited, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc |
1923. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
viii, 344 pages : |
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illustrations ; |
| Dimensions |
30 cm. |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE |
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| General note |
“George Nathaniel Curzon (1859‒1925) was a British politician, traveler, and writer who served as viceroy of India from 1899 to 1905 and foreign secretary from 1919 to 1924. As a young man he traveled extensively and wrote several travel books, or books that drew extensively on his travels, including Russia in Central Asia (1889), Persia and the Persian Question (1892), and Problems of the Far East (1894). Tales of Travel (1923), presented here, is one of his last books. It consists of previously unpublished memoirs and essays based on journeys taken earlier in Curzon’s life. The book reflects the range of Curzon’s travels, his curiosity and powers of observation, and his literary talent. One essay, “The Great Waterfalls of the World,” describes and compares waterfalls in North America, South America, Africa, India, and New Zealand. Another, “The Singing Sands,” deals with the strange singing or rumbling sounds said to be heard in deserts, and discusses this phenomenon as it manifests itself in the deserts of Central Asia, Afghanistan, Persia, the Sinai, Arabia, North Africa, and the Americas. Another piece is about sumo wrestling in Japan. One of the most noteworthy essays in the book, “The Amir of Afghanistan,” is an account of Curzon’s meetings in 1894‒95 with ‘Abd al-Rahman Khan (circa 1844–1901), ruler of Afghanistan. Curzon characterizes the amir as brilliant and effective, but also cruel and merciless. “He welded the Afghan tribes into a unity which they had never previously enjoyed, and he paved the way for the complete independence which his successors achieved. He and he alone was the Government of Afghanistan.” The book is illustrated, and contains a large fold-out facsimile of a map of Afghanistan prepared and circulated by ‘Abd al-Rahman Khan”—copied from website. |
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The Library of Congress donated copies of the digitized material (along with extensive bibliographic records) containing more than 163,000 pages of documents to ACKU, the collections that include thousands of historical, cultural, and scholarly materials dating from the early 1300s to the 1990s includes books, manuscripts, maps, photographs, newspapers and periodicals related to Afghanistan in Pushto, Dari, as well as in English, French, German, Russian and other European languages ACKU has a PDF copy of the item. |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
Contents: The drums of Kairwan.--The Amir of Afghanistan.--The voice of Memnon.--The Falls of the Zambesi.--The great waterfalls of the world.--"Lest we forget." I. The death-bed of Sir Henry Lawrence. II. The billiard table of Napoleon.--The palaestra of Japan.--Pages from a diary.--Humours of travel.--The singing sands. |
| 546 ## - LANGUAGE NOTE |
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| Language note |
English |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Voyages and travels. |
| 856 ## - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS |
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| Electronic format type |
PDF |
| Uniform Resource Identifier |
<a href="https://doi.org/10.29171/azu_acku_g463_c879_1923 ">https://doi.org/10.29171/azu_acku_g463_c879_1923 </a> |
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Scanned for ACKU. |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme |
Library of Congress Classification |
| Koha item type |
Monograph |
| Call number prefix |
azu_acku_g463_c879_1923 |