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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Art. IV. ? 1. The Crimea and Odessa: Journal of a Tour, with an account of the Climate and Vegetation. By Dr. Charles Koch: translated by Joanna B. Hokner. 8vo. London: 1855. 2. An Historical Sketch of the Crimea. By Anthony Grant, D.C.L., Archdeacon of St. Albans, andc. 12mo. London: 1855. Tt is almost impossible to cast one's eyes upon the map.of Eu- rope, without being struck by the remarkable geographical position of the Crimean peninsula. Projecting, like an advanced bastion, into the midst of the Black Sea, completely commanding the mouths of two of the greatest rivers of Eastern Europe, the Don and the Dnieper, and lying opposite to the Danube and the Bosphorus, it seems destined to secure the dominion of the Euxine and to exert the most important influence over all the surrounding countries, both of Asia and Europe. At the present moment, when the eyes of the whole civilised world are bent on this remote corner of the Russian Empire, and the question of ascendancy between the East and the West appears about to be decided within the narrow limits of the Crimea, an inquiry naturally suggests itself as to the past fortunes of a region destined to play so important a part in the present contest. Has the Crimea never before assumed that position in history, for which its geographical advantages so eminently qualify it ? or has it first emerged from obscurity since it became annexed to the Russian Empire ? Probably all our readers are aware that before the reign of Catherine II., it was governed by its own Tartar princes, as a dependency of the Turkish Empire; and many of them will remember the combination of fraud and force, intrigue and injustice, by which its transfer to the Russian Crown was effected. But we suspect that there are few among them who have a...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217346870 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217346871 |
| Weight | 1.54 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.06 In |
| List Price | $34.24 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 478 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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