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Through the Heart of Asia: Over the Pamïr to India: Cambridge Library Collection - Travel and Exploration in Asia

Autor Gabriel Bonvalot Traducere de C. B. Pitman
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 7 mar 2012
The French explorer, author and legislator Gabriel Bonvalot (1853–1933) received funding from the French government to lead two expeditions to Central Asia in the 1880s. This two-volume English translation by C. B. Pitman of the French original was published in 1889 and is a richly illustrated account of the second of the two Asian expeditions, in which Bonvalot and the scientist Guillaume Capus attempted to enter Afghanistan. Although the party was detained and sent back to Samarkand upon entering Afghanistan, they refused to concede defeat, as Bonvalot was determined to reach India via a trail believed to run across the Pamir and Hindu Kush mountains. In Volume 2 the party reaches the remote Kingdom of Chatral, but is imprisoned again. Bonvalot uses the confinement to study the customs of the local people, and eventually, with the help of the British authorities, they are released and allowed to continue to India.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781108046398
ISBN-10: 1108046398
Pagini: 274
Ilustrații: 123 b/w illus. 1 map
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Seria Cambridge Library Collection - Travel and Exploration in Asia

Locul publicării:Cambridge, United Kingdom

Cuprins

9. From the Amu to Samarcand; 10. The Pamir; 11. The Pamir continued; 12. The Pamir continued; 13. The Pamir continued; 14. Towards the Kunjut; 15. Stopped in the Tchatral; Index.

Descriere

This 1889 publication describes a French explorer's attempts to reach India by travelling across Afghanistan, and his eventual success.