About the Book :
This multi volume series,
illustrated with numerous engravings and maps, deals with all the major aspects
of planet earth and its inhabitants. Describes the physical features, geological
formation, water systems, climate, flora and fauna, and human inhabitant, we
have come out with eight volumes on Asia, covering Asiatic Russia (Caucasia,
Aralo-Caspian Basian, Siberia), East Asia (Chinese Empire, Korea, Japan), India
and Indo-China, and South-Western Asia (Afghanistan, Baluchistan, Persia,
Asiatic Turkey, Lower Kurdistan, Mesopotamia, Iraq, Asia Minor, Cyprus, Syria,
Palestine, Sinai and Arabia).
About Author :
Élisée Reclus, a French
geographer, was born at Sainte-Foy-la-Grande (Gironde) on March 15, 1830. His
education, began in Rhenish Prussia, continued in the Protestant College of
Montauhan, and completed at the University of Berlin, where he followed a long
course of Geography under Karl Ritter. After 1892 he filled the chair of
Comparative Geography in the University of Brussels, and contributed several
important memoirs to French, German and English scientific journals, the
important being: The Progress of Mankind (Contemp. Rev., 1896); Attila de
Gerando (Rev. Géograph., 1898); A Great Globe (Geograph. Journ., 1898); L
Extrême-Orient (Bul. Antwerp Geo. Soc., 1898); La Perse (Bul. Soc. Neuchateloise,
1899); La Phénice et les Phéniciens (ibid., 1900); La Chine et la diplomatie
européenne (L'Humanité nouvelle series, 1900); and L Enseignement de la
géographie (Instit. Geograph. de Bruxelles, No. 5, 1901). Shortly before his
death Reclus had completed L Homme et la terre, in which he set the crown on his
previous greater works by consider-ing man in his development relative to
geographical environment. He died at Thourout, near Bruges, on July 4, 1905.
