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RussianChineseFrontier-murray-1861
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Title
Map of Russian and Chinese Frontier Illustrating the Journey of Semenof to the Tian-Shan Mounts. and R. Jaxartes and Golubof s Issyk-kul Expedition.
1861 (dated)
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Description
This is an 1861 John Murray map of Central Asia tracing Pyotr Semyonov s (1827 - 1914) first European ascent into the Tian Shan Mountains. The map depicts the region from Lake Balkash south to the Tian Shan Mountains, encompassing modern-day Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, and western China - at the time considered one of the most remote and inaccessible parts of the world.
The Semyonov Expedition to the Tian Shan MountainsA red line traces the Russian mountaineer Pyotr Petrovich Semyonov Tyan-Shansky s (Пётр Петрович Семёнов-Тян-Шанский; 1827 - 1914) 1857 expedition into the heart of the Tian Shan Mountains, which he undertook at the suggestion of the German naturalist Alexander von Humbolt (1769 - 18