Download or read book Travels Into Bokhara written by Alexander Burnes and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Travels Into Bokhara written by Alexander Burnes and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Travels Into Bokhara written by Alexander Burnes and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-07-14 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Great Game' (also referred to as the Tournament of Shadows) is a term used to describe the political and diplomatic confrontation that existed during most of the 19th Century between the British Empire and the Russian Empire centered around Afghanistan and its surrounding regions. The classic Great Game period is generally regarded as running approximately from the Russo-Persian Treaty of 1813 to the Anglo-Russian Convention of 1907, in which nations like the Emirate of Bukhara fell. Alexander Burnes was a British adventurer and employee of the East India Company during this turbulent era. He spoke Hindi and Persian and was nicknamed Bokhara Burnes for his role in establishing contact with and exploring Bukhara, which made his name. He was rumored to be a spy during the first Afghan War and was knighted by Queen Victoria for his clandestine services during the conflict. Burnes kept a lively, detailed record of his trail-blazing journey across Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, the Indian sub-continent and beyond which he later published in three volumes to great acclaim, entitled Travels into Bokhara - A Voyage up the Indus to Lahore and a Journey to Cabool, Tartary & Persia.This is Volume One.
Download or read book Travels in the Himalayan Provinces of Hindustan and the Panjab written by William Moorcroft and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Moorcroft (1767-1825) was a veterinary surgeon who, after maintaining a veterinary practice for a time in London, was engaged in 1807 by the East India Company to manage its breeding of horses. He arrived in India in 1808 and took charge of the company's stud operations at Pusa, Bengal. In 1811 and 1812 he undertook journeys to the northwest in search of larger and better stud horses than he was able to find in India. In July 1812 he crossed the Himalayas to become one of the first Europeans to enter Tibet by this route. By this time, his interests had expanded from the procurement of horses to include the opening of trade relations between Central Asia and Great Britain and the projection of British influence beyond the northwest of British India to counter what he saw as a growing Russian presence in the region. In May 1819 Moorcroft received permission from the East India Company to travel to Bukhara (in present-day Uzbekistan). He reached the city in February 1825 after a more than five-year journey that took him to Ladakh, Kashmir, Rawalpindi, Peshawar, into Afghanistan via the Khyber Pass, and through Kabul and Kunduz to his ultimate destination. He began his return journey to India in July 1825, but died of fever in Balkh, Afghanistan, on August 27. Travels in the Himalayan Provinces of Hindustan and the Panjab is Moorcroft's account of his journey of 1819-25. It was posthumously edited and published by Horace Wilson, professor of Sanskrit at the University of Oxford and a member of the Royal Asiatic Society, based on Moorcroft's voluminous notebooks and correspondence. Volume one is devoted entirely to Moorcroft's journey to and residence in Ladakh. Volume two completes the account of Moorcroft's time in Ladakh and recounts his journey to Kashmir, Kabul, and Bukhara. The book contains a detailed map of Central Asia compiled and drawn by the London mapmaker John Arrowsmith, based mainly on the field notes of George Trebeck, a young Englishman who accompanied Moorcroft on the journey and who recorded geographical details measured in paces combined with compass bearings.
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Download or read book Travels in the Panjab Afghanistan Turkistan to Balk Bokhara and Herat written by Mohana Lāla (Munshi) and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cabool written by Sir Alexander Burnes and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cabool: A Personal Narrative of a Journey to, and Residence in that City, in the Years 1836, 7, and 8 is an account of an 18-month voyage undertaken by Sir Alexander Burnes and three companions by order of the governor-general of India. The purpose of the journey was to survey the Indus River and the territories adjoining it, with the aim of opening up the river to commerce. Following a route that took them up the Indus from its mouth in present-day Pakistan, Burnes and his party visited Shikarpur, Peshawar, Kabul, Herat, and Jalalabad, before completing their journey in Lahore. The book contains detailed information about the ethnic, linguistic, and religious groups living in Afghanistan and parts of present-day Pakistan, and observations about the war underway at that time between the Sikh Empire and the Emirate of Afghanistan. Also included is a brief account of the formal audience with the amir of Afghanistan, Dost Mohammad Khan, who cordially received the visitors as representatives of the governor-general of India. Of particular interest is the economic and demographic data compiled by Burnes and his party, which is presented in striking detail. The book notes, for example, that the bazaar at Dera Ghazee Khan (present-day Dera Ghazi Khan City, Pakistan) had 1,597 shops, of which 115 were sellers of cloth, 25 sellers of silk, 60 jewelers, 18 paper sellers, and so forth. Equally detailed information is given about the prices of grains and other commodities, the production of dates and pomegranates, and the number of Hazaras living in the region between Kabul and Herat, which is put at 66,900. Burnes was killed in Afghanistan in 1841, and this book was published posthumously, with the first edition published in London by John Murray in 1842. Presented here is the second edition, also published in London by John Murray in 1843. A one-volume, U.S. edition, which was also published in 1843, was based on this second edition. It was published in Philadelphia by Carey and Hart.
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Download or read book Travels into Bokhara written by Alexander Burnes and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-06-20 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: London: John Murray, 1834.
Download or read book Travels Into Bokhara Containing the Narrative of a Voyage on the Indus from the Sea to Lahore with Presents from the King of Great Britain and an Account of a Journey from India to Cabool Tartary and Persia written by Alexander Burnes and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Return of a King written by William Dalrymple and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2013-04-16 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From William Dalrymple—award-winning historian, journalist and travel writer—a masterly retelling of what was perhaps the West’s greatest imperial disaster in the East, and an important parable of neocolonial ambition, folly and hubris that has striking relevance to our own time. With access to newly discovered primary sources from archives in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Russia and India—including a series of previously untranslated Afghan epic poems and biographies—the author gives us the most immediate and comprehensive account yet of the spectacular first battle for Afghanistan: the British invasion of the remote kingdom in 1839. Led by lancers in scarlet cloaks and plumed helmets, and facing little resistance, nearly 20,000 British and East India Company troops poured through the mountain passes from India into Afghanistan in order to reestablish Shah Shuja ul-Mulk on the throne, and as their puppet. But after little more than two years, the Afghans rose in answer to the call for jihad and the country exploded into rebellion. This First Anglo-Afghan War ended with an entire army of what was then the most powerful military nation in the world ambushed and destroyed in snowbound mountain passes by simply equipped Afghan tribesmen. Only one British man made it through. But Dalrymple takes us beyond the bare outline of this infamous battle, and with penetrating, balanced insight illuminates the uncanny similarities between the West’s first disastrous entanglement with Afghanistan and the situation today. He delineates the straightforward facts: Shah Shuja and President Hamid Karzai share the same tribal heritage; the Shah’s principal opponents were the Ghilzai tribe, who today make up the bulk of the Taliban’s foot soldiers; the same cities garrisoned by the British are today garrisoned by foreign troops, attacked from the same rings of hills and high passes from which the British faced attack. Dalryrmple also makes clear the byzantine complexity of Afghanistan’s age-old tribal rivalries, the stranglehold they have on the politics of the nation and the ways in which they ensnared both the British in the nineteenth century and NATO forces in the twenty-first. Informed by the author’s decades-long firsthand knowledge of Afghanistan, and superbly shaped by his hallmark gifts as a narrative historian and his singular eye for the evocation of place and culture, The Return of a King is both the definitive analysis of the First Anglo-Afghan War and a work of stunning topicality.
Download or read book Travels Into Bokhara written by Alexander Burnes, Sir and published by Nabu Press. This book was released on 2014-02-10 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to ensure edition identification: ++++ Travels Into Bokhara: Being The Account Of A Journey From India To Cabool, Tartary And Persia; Also, Narrative Of A Voyage On The Indus, From The Sea To Lahore, With Presents From The King Of Great Britain; Performed Under The Orders Of The Supreme Government Of India, In The Years 1831, 1832 ...; Volume 1 Of Travels Into Bokhara, Being The Account Of A Journey From India To Cabool, Tartary, And Persia: Also, Narrative Of A Voyage On The Indus, From The Sea To Lahore; Alexander Burnes; Travels Into Bokhara; Alexander Burnes; Travels Into Bokhara: Being The Account Of A Journey From India To Cabool, Tartary And Persia; Also, Narrative Of A Voyage On The Indus, From The Sea To Lahore, With Presents From The King Of Great Britain; Performed Under The Orders Of The Supreme Government Of India, In The Years 1831, 1832, And 1833; Sir Alexander Burnes 2 Sir Alexander Burnes J. Murray, 1835 History; Asia; India & South Asia; Afghanistan; Asia, Central; Bokhara; Bukhara (Uzbekistan); Bukharskai͡a Narodnai͡a Sovetskai͡a Respublika (R.S.F.S.R.); Bukharskai͡a Narodnai͡a Sovetskai͡a Respublika (Russia); Bukharskai︠a︡ Narodnai︠a︡ Sovetskai︠a︡ Respublika (R.S.F.S.R.); Bukharskai︠a︡ Narodnai︠a︡ Sovetskai︠a︡ Respublika (Russia); Bukharskai︠a︡ oblastʹ (Uzbekistan); History / Asia / India & South Asia; Indus River; Indus River Valley; Khanate of Bukhara; Pakistan
Download or read book Swift Gulliver s Travels written by Howard Erskine-Hill and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1993-07-30 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing a original impartial account of the world-famous satire, this new critical introduction to Gulliver's Travels presents Swift's work in its historical and literary context, and explores its allusions, four-part structure, narrative strategy and prose style.
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Download or read book Travels Into Bokhara written by Sir Alexander Burnes and published by Eland Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alexander Burnes travelled up the Indus to Lahore and to the Khanates of Afghanistan and Central Asia in the 1830s, spying on behalf of the British Government in what was to become known as the 'Great Game'.
Download or read book An Historical Account of the British Trade Over the Caspian Sea written by Jonas Hanway and published by London : sold by Dodsley ; Cornhill [Eng. : sold by] Willock. This book was released on 1753 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
