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Being a Personal Narrative of a Journey to, and Residence in that City, in the Years 1836, 7, and 8

Szerző: Alexander Burnes

Nyelv:

Kötés: Puha kötésű

Kiadó: Cambridge University Press

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In the long and often disastrous history of British entanglement in Afghanistan, the name of Alexand...

Információk a könyvről

Szerző

Alexander Burnes

Nyelv

Angol

Kötés

Könyv - Puha kötésű

Kiadva

2014

oldal

440

EAN

9781108075374

ISBN

1108075371

Enbook ID

04769329

Kiadó

Cambridge University Press

Súly

560

Méretek

140 x 216 x 25

Teljes leírás

In the long and often disastrous history of British entanglement in Afghanistan, the name of Alexander Burnes (1805-41) deserves to be remembered. Aged sixteen, he went to India to take up a post in the 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 and to observe the expansionist activities of the Russians in central Asia. (Burnes' 1834 account of this journey is also reissued in this series.) In 1836, he was sent to Kabul, and became involved in the British plan to replace Dost Muhammad Khan with Shah Shuja (which he personally thought a mistake). The British became a focus of increasing local discontent, and in November 1841 Burnes was murdered in Kabul by a mob. This account of his stay in the city was published posthumously in 1842.