W. Rickmer Rickmers. The Duab of Turkestan. A Physiographic Sketch & Account of some Travels. Martino Pub 2008. Green cloth hardcover with gold lettering. Good, sl soiling. Quarto 563 pp maps Reprint of 1913 ed.

"W. Rickmer Rickmers (1873–1965) was a German explorer and mountaineer who visited and explored central Asia five times between 1894 and 1906. This book provides an account of his travels in the area he calls Turkestan, which incorporates modern Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and south-west Kazakhstan, and was first published in 1913." Cambridge University Press