The Pamirs and the Source of the Oxus Paperback – April 22, 2002

The book is clean and crisp, and terrific value for money compared to either the original publication (in a journal, Royal Geographical Society, Vol 8). The original in either format had a fold-out map as far as I can tell. It isn't in this reprint, which was a disappointment. I'm not calling the lack enough to reduce the rating for a good and valuable reprint, but I thought I'd mention it.

Found this book via Google books and there's not much info elsewhere.

This book details Curzon's account of his expedition to the remote Pamir region near modern-day Tajikistan, Afghanistan, China, and Pakistani Kashmir.

Curzon is a British explorer and there are moments I found humorous from a modern perspective as he travels with Kyrgyz nomads along ancient Silk Road paths.

The route Curzon takes traverses an area known as the Pamir in the far northeastern corner of Afghanistan... the eastern end of the modern-day Wakhan Corridor. This mountainous plain is among the most remote landlocked inhabited places in the world where in 2016 nomads still live.

Eine der gelehrtesten Abhandlungen über den Pamir aus den 1890er Jahren, „The Pamirs and the Source of the Oxus“ stammt aus der Feder keines geringeren als George Nathaniel Curzon, später 1. Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, Ritter des Hosenbandordens, zweimaliger Vizekönig von Indien, ein Geistestitan sondergleichen, der 1894 den Pamir auf der Suche nach der eigentlichen Quelle des Oxus bereist und die gesamte einschlägige Literatur akribisch studiert hat. Trotz oder vielleicht gerade infolge aller Gelehrtheit eine sehr trockene Lektüre, die dennoch jedem, der sich näher mit dem Pamir beschäftigt, bekannt sein sollte.