Word: turkestan
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Government. Too sickly to attend school, he was tutored in Turkish and in military strategy by a disinherited German nobleman-cowboy; a Turkish scholar taught him Asiatic lore. Thus primed, in 1935 Hathaway went to Bombay, thence to Tibet and Turkestan, where he fought with a bloodthirsty Mohammedan chieftain against the Bolsheviks. Captured, he spent 116 days in solitary confinement in a Soviet prison, made his lucky exit via the Gobi desert to Shanghai. Whatever the facts of his curious adventures, Author "Ramal" is a vivid writer, nearly rivals the fantastic imaginings of Frederic Prokosch's The Asiatics...
...mile above sea level, Lanchow lies in a cup surrounded by mountains at the point where the Yellow River intercepts the old desert route from Turkestan to Peking. Inside its mud walls and high gates is found a desert melting pot of Mongols, Turks, Tibetans, Manchus. Moslems who have long thrived on the city's far-flung trade. At Lanchow, Bactrian camels dump full caravan loads that have been hauled 1,500 miles from the Turkestan-Siberian railhead in Kazakistan. By camelback are brought dates from Turkestan, raisins and apricots from Turfan...
Sinkiang Province (area: 705,769 sq. mi.; population: 4,360,000), sometimes called Chinese Turkestan, is a fairly rich, comparatively unexploited, thoroughly exotic area. Its principal exports have been wool, camel's-hair, sheep guts, gold, jade, fine horses, Chinese medicinal ingredients (elk horn, saiga antelope horn, bears' paws). The huge province has never been properly integrated with China, and since about 1930, Russian influence has almost amounted to domination. Since economically Sinkiang is already virtually a Russian province, Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, no lover of Communists, may well have seen the sense of making concessions there...
...upper valley of the Yangtze, an area approximately 1,000 miles from East to West and 1,300 miles from North to South. Below it lie the steaming jungles of Burma and French Indo-China, west of it lie the mountain fastnesses of Tibet, northwestward the desert plateaus of Turkestan (Sinkiang) and Mongolia...
...present system should be changed, because under it the raw material situation in Turkestan may remain unexplored and the forest laws of medieval England may lie forgotten beneath the silt of centuries while the student who would burrow for such knowledge is balked by the carelessness of other Widener patrons. No longer should the four week privilege obstruct the channels of knowledge...