Travels Into Bokhara - A Voyage Up Indus to Lahore a Journey to Cahool, Tartary Persia

Klappentext This brand new edition brings the heady sense of excitement, risk, and zeal bursting from the pages, as a young intelligence agent from Downing Street explores 19th century Lahor, Kabul, Persia, and many more far-flung places. Zusammenfassung The author has 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. This title provides an account his travels.

Product details

• Authors: Alexander Burnes, Alexander Sir Burnes, Sir Alexander Burnes
• Assisted by: Kathleen Hopkirk (Editor)
• Publisher: Eland Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.01.2012
• EAN: 9781906011710
• ISBN: 978-1-906011-71-0
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 139 mm x 218 mm x 18 mm
• Subject: Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales