Turkistan
by Eugene Schuyler

Eugene Schulyer, former Secretary of the American Legation at St. Petersburgh, travelled extensively in Russian Central Asia and provides in this monumental work, an exceptionally detailed description of the regions through which he travelled.

Eugene gives accounts of the economic, political, religious and social conditions of Russian Central Asia, as well as detailed descriptions of places of worship, habits of dress and local languages. 

"The chief aim of my journey in Central Asia was to study the political and social condition of the regions which had been recently annexed by Russia, as well as to compare the state of the inhabitants under Russian rule with that of those still living under the depostism of the Khans."

Originally published in 1876.