by
Arminius Vambery
Sketches of Central Asia (1868) is a travel memoir written by the Hungarian traveller Arminius Vámbéry, whose other writings include His Life and Adventures (1886), The Story of Hungary and co-authoring of the book The Voyages and Adventures of Ferdinand Mendez Pinto, the Portuguese.
His adventurous travel through the dreaded Turkoman dese..