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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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Väzba: Brožovaná

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

Informácie o knihe

Autor

Alexander Burnes

Jazyk

Angličtina

Väzba

Kniha - Brožovaná

Vydalo

2014

Stránok

440

EAN

9781108075374

ISBN

1108075371

Enbook ID

04769329

Vydavateľ

Cambridge University Press

Hmotnosť

560

Rozmery

140 x 216 x 25

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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.