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Sketches of Central Asia

Sketches of Central Asia [Text] : Additional Chapters on my Travels, Adventures, and on the Ethnology of Central Asia / A. Vámbéry ... – Philadelphia : J. B. Lippincott & CO, 1868. - 444 p. . . – [n. c.]

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Traveling in Central Asia

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In 1861, Vambéry, disguised as a Sunni dervish, set off from Constantinople on a trip to Central Asia. He visited Tabriz, Zanjan, Qazvin, Khiva, Bukhara and Samarkand. This was the first voyage undertaken by a Western European