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0017 The Pulse of Asia : vol.1
アジアの鼓動 : vol.1
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doi: 10.20676/00000233
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PREFACE

This book is the record of a journey in Central Asia, and
its aim is to illustrate the geographic relation between physi-
cal environment and man, and between changes of climate
and history. Most of the individual hypotheses advanced
are already familiar, although the facts presented in support
of them are new. If the book possesses any claim to recog-
nition, it lies in the combination of various hypotheses, hith-
erto unrelated, into a single consistent geographic theory of
history. The theory harmonizes a vast array of facts derived,
not from one branch of science, but from the varied fields of
geography, meteorology, archæology, folk-lore, and history.
It will doubtless require modification, but if it shall advance
the scientific as opposed to the empirical study of geogra-
phy and history, the purpose of this volume will have been
accomplished.

In the following pages, the name of Professor Davis, to
whom the book is dedicated, appears frequently. He has
raised geography from an empirical to a rational science.
To him half the geographers of America, myself among the
number, owe their instruction in the new science which,
when it comes to its own, bids fair to be the most fascinating
of all. I owe him far more than this, however, for it was
through him that I had the opportunity to spend three years
in Central Asia in addition to the four which I had previously
spent in Asia Minor. Since my return to America, the liberal
terms of a Hooper Fellowship in the Graduate School of