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

This bestselling 1834 work describes the activities, both diplomatic and covert, of Alexander Burnes in central Asia.

Alexander Burnes (Author)

9781108075480, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 31 July 2014

364 pages, 4 b/w illus. 1 map
21.6 x 14 x 2.1 cm, 0.46 kg

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 Russians in central Asia. In 1832, he set off, with an army doctor, and two Indians as surveyor and secretary. They travelled in local dress and adopted whatever personas a situation required. Having reached Bukhara, they continued overland to the Caspian Sea, and then to Tehran, returning to Bombay by sea in 1833. This three-volume account of his adventures, published in 1834, was an instant bestseller. Volume 3 is an account of Burnes' earlier diplomatic mission up the Indus to Lahore in 1831. He continued his diplomatic activities in Afghanistan, but was murdered there by a mob in 1841.

Introduction
1. Arrival of presents from the king of England
2. Tatta described
3. Departure from Hydrabad
4. Quit Bukkur
5. Voyage in the country of the Seiks
6. Enter Lahore
Memoir on the Indus and its Tributary Rivers in the Punjab: 1. A general view of the Indus
2. A comparison of the Indus and Ganges
3. On Sinde
4. On the mouths of the Indus
5. On the delta of the Indus
6. The Indus from Tatta to Hydrabad
7. The Indus from Hydrabad to Sehwun
8. The Indus from Sehwun to Bukkur
9. The Indus from Bukkur
10. The Indus from Mittun to Attok
11. The Chenab, or Acesines, joined by the Sutlege, or Hesudrus
12. On Bhawul Khan's country
13. The Punjab
14. The Chenab joined by the Ravee
15. The Ravee below Lahore
16. A memoir of the eastern branch of the Indus, and the Run of Cutch.

Subject Areas: British & Irish history [HBJD1]