The Region of the Eternal Fire: An Account of a Journey to the Petroleum Region of the Caspian in 1883 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Region of the Eternal Fire: An Account of a Journey to the Petroleum Region of the Caspian in 1883The interest excited by the development of Russia's power in the Black Sea and Caspian, and the progress of the petroleum industry at Baku, has provoked a demand for a popular edition of the account of my travels published in 1884. So many have been the changes that have occurred since, that the task of revising the work has not been easy; and to meet the difficulty, so far as the petroleum section is concerned, an additional chapter has been appended, bringing the subject up to date.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.