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. Volume 2 / Alexander Burnes.
Aged sixteen, Alexander Burnes (1805?41) took up a post in the Bombay army, and speedily learned both Hindustani and Persian. His skills led him to political work, and he himself proposed a covert expedition to Bukhara, to survey the country, but also to observe the expansionist activities of the Ru...
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1834.
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