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

Autor: Alexander Burnes

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Oprawa: Miękka

Wydawca: Cambridge University Press

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

Informacje o książce

Autor

Alexander Burnes

Język

Angielski

Oprawa

Książka - Miękka

Data wydania

2014

strony

440

EAN

9781108075374

ISBN

1108075371

Enbook ID

04769329

Wydawca

Cambridge University Press

Waga

560

Wymiary

140 x 216 x 25

Pełny opis

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.