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Gabriel Bonvalot (1853‒1933) was a French explorer and author who led three major expeditions to Central Asia in the 1880s and 1890s. En Asie centrale: De Moscou en Bactriane (In Central Asia: From Moscow to Bactria) is Bonvalot’s account of the first of these expeditions, undertaken with the scientist Dr. Guillaume Capus (1857‒1931) in 1880‒82. After traveling by rail from Moscow to Semipalatinsk (in present-day Kazakhstan) where they entered Russian Turkestan, the two men journeyed southeast to Tashkent (in present-day Uzbekistan) and from there to Qarshi ...