Wild Life Among The Koords

This summary reference to the geography and history of this region is intended to convey to the reader a general view of the subject which the contents of the work will develop in its details. In my work, La Turquie sous le Regne d'abdul-aziz, published in 1868, I was compelled to sacrifice, in a great measure, geographical and ethnological questions to paramount political interests. The highly scattering testimonial, ale however, which Sir Roderick Murchison, President of the Royal Geographical Society, granted to this work on account of the geographical and ethnological details which might be gleaned from its contents, has encouraged me to undertake the present publication, trusting that, through my exertions, a gleam of light may be thrown on the present condition of that portion of the globe which was at one time the seat of mighty empires, but is now sunk under the weight of ignorance and barbarism.