Afar region

When the time came to pick a comission he [Kropotkin - vs] determined to travel to the far expanses of eastern Siberia to the recently annexed Afar region.
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Thirty years before Kropotkin set out for the Afar, Charles Darwin set sail on the HMS Beagle.

- The Price of Altruism, pg 17

see also Afar region

см. также Ковалевский, Владимир Онуфриевич и Владимир Ковалевский: трагедия нигилиста. (The first blow was struck from Russia. Vladimir Kovalevskii had come to London to work on hippopotamus evolution and was soon befriended by Huxley - pg 14).