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0045 The Pulse of Asia : vol.1
アジアの鼓動 : vol.1
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together for two months, and then undertook independent
expeditions, Mr. Barrett going east from Khotan to China
Proper, while I went east by another route to Lop-Nor,
and then, turning north, arrived at Turfan in March, 1906,
and reached home the following May via Siberia and
Russia.
The journey through Chinese Turkestan from India to
Siberia forms the main theme of this book, but I shall de-
vote a few chapters to other parts of Central Asia. This
volume, like the majority of so-called "geographical" books,
is a description of a journey; but, as I have already said, it
is also an attempt to describe certain parts of Asia as illustra-
tions of the great principles of geography. My conception
of that science, as stated above, is the one which has been
spread abroad in the world at large, and especially in Amer-
ica, during the last few years by the persistent labors of
Professor Davis. According to his definition, geography
is primarily the study of the various natural divisions or
provinces of the earth's surface as illustrations of the re-
lations between the inorganic physical facts of the earth,
air, and water on the one hand, and the organic facts of
the vegetable, animal, and human world on the other. To
illustrate: The investigation of the structure, origin, form,
and climate of a lofty plateau and a neighboring arid plain
is not geography, but geology, physiography, or meteorology.
Neither can the study of the methods of plant growth and
animal nutrition rightly be called geography, but botany
or zoölogy. When, however, we consider the fact that be-
cause of the elevation of the plateau its climate is such that
grass grows abundantly in summer; while the plain, being