Description

George Nathaniel Curzon (1859–1925) was a British politician, traveler, and writer who served as viceroy of India from 1899 to 1905 and foreign secretary from 1919 to 1924. As a young man he traveled extensively and wrote several travel books, or books that drew extensively on his travels. Presented here is his Russia in Central Asia in 1889, and the Anglo-Russian Question. Published in London in 1889, the book was intended as an update to the political situation in Central Asia up to that year. It is based on ...