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Through Russian Central Asia by Stephen Graham, illustr., 1916, London, in English - Through Russian Central Asia by Stephen Graham, illustr., 1916, London, in English London: Cassell and Company, Ltd., 1916. 8vo. pp. xii, 280, folding map & 37 plates (incl. photogravure frontis.). Hard cloth cover, size: 24 x 16.5 cm. Condition: wear, rubbing and staining to cover; foxing stains to most of pages; some worm holes to last pages Weight: 920 gr. Stephen Graham (19 March 1884 – 15 March 1975) was a British journalist, travel-writer, essayist and novelist. His best-known books recount his travels around pre-revolutionary Russia and his journey to Jerusalem with a group of Russian Christian pilgrims. Most of his works express his sympathy for the poor, for agricultural labourers and for tramps, and his distaste for industrialisation.