Synopsis
From London To Bokhara: And A Ride Through Persia by Augustus Le Messurier. This travelogue recounts a late-19th-century journey from England through the Caucasus and Trans-Caspia to Bokhara, with subsequent return and travels through Persia to Bombay. It blends practical travel detail—outfitting, currency, time-tables, rail and stage routes, and logistical notes—with extensive observations of people, places, and infrastructures: the Georgian Military Road, the Trans-Caspian Railway, Baku’s oil industry, caravan routes, and Persian towns and courts. The narrative situates imperial expansion in Central Asia within geographic, economic, and political contexts, offering portraits of Russians, Cossacks, Circassians, Georgians, Persians, and Turkoman tribes. Rich with maps, plans, and illustrations, the book serves as both adventure memoir and documentary history of late 19th-century Eurasia, detailing geography, climate, markets, and the evolving routes that connected Europe and Asia.
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