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GŪR AMĪR, THE MAUSOLEUM OF TAMERLANE

THE HEART OF ASIA

A History of Russian Turkestan
and the Central Asian Khanates
from the Earliest Times

BY

FRANCIS HENRY SKRINE
FORMERLY A MEMBER OF H.M. INDIAN CIVIL SERVICE

AND