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She is the first who has redeemed\r\nthe name of sutler from the suspicion of worthlessness,\r\nmercenary baseness, and plunder; and I\r\ntrust that England will not forget one who nursed\r\nher sick, who sought out her wounded to aid and\r\nsuccour them, and who performed the last offices for\r\nsome of her illustrious dead.\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 23031 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Seacole, Mary \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Oct 14, 2007 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eContributors\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEditor\u003c\/b\u003e: W. J. 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Oli aivan kuin suuri vaaleanviheriinen Venjn kartta\nSipirioineen olisi asettunut silmieni eteen ja yhdell kertaa sulkenut\nkaiken maalaisen hikisevn heijastuksen sulavasta lumesta, kaikki\nkimeltelevt nuppineula-auringot lirisevst vedest.\nSisssni tiedn hyvin, etten ollut mitn ptst tehnyt ja ett\nminun pikemmin olisi ollut jminen kotiin maalle kirjoittamaan\nalotettua kirjoitusta, opettamaan poikaani ja lukutupamme ihmisi,\nharjaamaan hevostani ja lukemaan Laotzeun \"Livre de la voie et de la\nvertu.\" Mutta ei ole mahdollista en ottaa takaisin annettua sanaa. Se\non pstnyt kaikki irti ja valloilleen. Veljeni, jonka kanssa minun\noli matkustaminen, oli jo hankkinut passitkin. 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Le volume\r\nque nous offrons aux jeunes lecteurs\r\ncontient les rsultats de ce travail; il prsente\r\nles principaux dtails sur l'tat physique\r\nde ce pays et sur ses malheureux\r\nhabitants. 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The principal object of my journey\nwas to trace the course of the Indus; which had\nonly been crossed at particular points by former\ntravellers, and had never been surveyed but\nbetween Tatta and Hydrabad. My success in\nthis undertaking, which was attended with\nmany difficulties, and the sight of so many\ntribes hitherto little known, gave fresh strength\nto a desire that I had always felt to see new\ncountries, and visit the conquests of Alexander.\nAs the first European of modern times who\nhad navigated the Indus, I now found myself\nstimulated to extend my journey beyond that[x]\nriverthe scene of romantic achievements which\nI had read of in early youth with the most intense\ninterest.\nThe design received the most liberal encouragement\nfrom the Governor-general of\nIndia, Lord William Bentinck, whom I joined\nat Simla, in the Himalaya Mountains, after the\ntermination of my mission to Lahore. His\nLordship was of opinion that a knowledge of the\ngeneral condition of the countries through\nwhich I was to travel, would be useful to the\nBritish Government, independent of other advantages\nwhich might be expected from such a\njourney.\nThe hazardous nature of the expedition, and\nthe mode in which it could be best accomplished,\nrequired consideration. It would have\nbeen objectionable, and highly imprudent, to\nhave entered the countries lying between India\nand Europe, as I had voyaged on the Indus, an\naccredited agent; and I was directed to appear\n(which I myself had suggested) as a private\nindividual.\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 58074 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Burnes, Alexander \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Oct 11, 2018 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Burnes, Alexander \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43239518699677,"sku":"gb-58074-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/58074.jpg?v=1672422304"},{"product_id":"travels-into-bokhara-volume-2-of-3-gb-64247","title":"Travels Into Bokhara (Volume 2 of 3)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTravels Into Bokhara (Volume 2 of 3)\r - 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; Performed Under the Orders of the Supreme Government of India, in the Years 1831, 1832, and 1833\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\r\nALSO, NARRATIVE OF\nA VOYAGE ON THE INDUS,\r\n\r\nFROM THE SEA TO LAHORE,\r\n\r\nWITH PRESENTS FROM THE KING OF GREAT BRITAIN;\r\n\r\nPERFORMED UNDER THE ORDERS OF THE SUPREME GOVERNMENT\r\nOF INDIA, IN THE YEARS 1831, 1832, AND 1833.\nAt midday, on the 16th of August, we commenced\r\nour march on the Oxus, which was\r\nabout twenty-seven miles distant. After journeying\r\nfor ten miles, we halted in the evening\r\nat a small village, and set out at midnight\r\nfor the river, under a bright moon.\r\nSand hills.\r\nFor a\r\ngreat part of the night our route led us among\r\nvast fields of soft sand, formed into ridges which\r\nexactly resembled, in colour and appearance,\r\nthose on the verge of the ocean. The belt of\r\nthese sand-hills, which lie between Bokhara and\r\nthe Oxus, varies in breadth from twelve to\r\nfifteen miles. They were utterly destitute of\r\nvegetation. There was a remarkable uniformity\r\nin their formation; the whole of them preserved\r\nthe shape and form of a horse-shoe,\r\nthe outer rim presenting itself to the north,\r\nthe direction from which the winds of this\r\ncountry blow. On this side the mounds sloped,[2]\r\nwhile the interior of the figure was invariably\r\nprecipitous; but loose sand will ever take\r\nits position from the prevailing winds. 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About an\r\nhour after the sun had risen, we exchanged this\r\ndreary route for verdant fields, irrigated by the\r\nOxus; and, after winding among them for about\r\nfour miles, encamped on the verge of the river,\r\nwhere we hid ourselves from the suns rays\r\nunder the panniers of our camels.\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 64247 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Burnes, Alexander \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Jan 9, 2021 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Burnes, Alexander \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43250023366813,"sku":"gb-64247-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/64247.webp?v=1672915144"},{"product_id":"travels-into-bokhara-volume-3-of-3-gb-66386","title":"Travels into Bokhara (Volume 3 of 3)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTravels into Bokhara (Volume 3 of 3) - 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; Performed Under the Orders of the Supreme Government of India, in the Years 1831, 1832, and 1833\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI was employed as an officer of the Quartermaster-generals\ndepartment, for several years, in\nthe province of Cutch. In the course of enquiries\ninto its geography and history, I visited\nthe eastern mouth of the Indus, to which the\ncountry adjoins, as well as that singular tract\ncalled the Run, into which that river flows.\nThe extension of our knowledge in that quarter\nserved only to excite further curiosity, in which\nI was stimulated by Lieut-General Sir Thomas\nBradford, then Commander-in-Chief of the Bombay\narmy. That officer directed his views, in a\nmost enlightened manner, to the acquisition of\nevery information regarding a frontier so important\nto Britain as that of north-western India.\nEncouraged by such approbation, for which I\nam deeply grateful, I volunteered my services,[x]\nin the year 1829, to traverse the deserts between\nIndia and the Indus, and finally, endeavour to\ndescend that river to the sea. Such a journey\ninvolved matters of political moment; but the\ngovernment of Bombay was then held by an individual\ndistinguished above all others, by zeal\nin the cause of Asiatic geography and literature.\nSir John Malcolm despatched me at once, in\nprosecution of the design, and was pleased to\nremove me to the political branch of the service,\nobserving, that I should be then invested with\ninfluence with the rulers, through whose\ncountry I travelled, that would tend greatly\nto allay that jealousy and alarm, which might\nimpede, if they did not arrest, the progress of\nmy enquiries.\nIn the year 1830, I entered the desert, accompanied\nby Lieut. James Holland, of the\nQuartermaster-generals department, an officer\nably qualified to assist me. After reaching\nJaysulmeer, we were overtaken by an express\nfrom the Supreme Government of India, desiring\nus to return, since at that time it was deemed[xi]\ninexpedient to incur the hazard of exciting\nthe alarm and jealousy of the rulers of Sinde,\nand other foreign states, by the prosecution of\nthe design. This disappointment, then most\nacutely felt, was dissipated in the following year,\nby the arrival of presents from the King of Great\nBritain for the ruler of Lahore, coupled, at the\nsame time, with the desire that such an opportunity\nfor acquiring correct information of the\nIndus should not be overlooked. The following\nwork contains the narrative of that mission,\nwhich I conducted by the Indus to Lahore.\nThe information which I collected, relative to\nJaysulmeer and the countries on the N. W. frontier\nof India, has just been published in the\nTransactions of the Royal Geographical Society\nof London.\nLondon, June 7. 1834.\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 66386 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Burnes, Alexander \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Sep 26, 2021 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Burnes, Alexander \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43250347770013,"sku":"gb-66386-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/66386.webp?v=1672925130"},{"product_id":"through-russian-central-asia-gb-67938","title":"Through Russian Central Asia","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThrough Russian Central Asia\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTHE journey recorded in these pages was made in\nthe summer before the great war, and although\nthe record of my impressions and the story of my\nadventures were fully written in my road diary and in\nthe articles I sent to The Times, I had thought to\npostpone issuing my book to some quieter moment\nbeyond the war. But the days go on, and we are\ngetting accustomed to live in a state of war; war has\nalmost become a normal condition of existence. At\nfirst we could do nothing but consider the facts of\nthe great quarrel of nations and the exploits of the\narmies. War for the moment seemed to be our life,\nour culture, and our religion. But things have\nchanged. War started by concentrating us and\nmaking us narrow, but now it is giving us greater\nbreadth. We have become more interested in the\nhome life of our Allies, in the after-the-war prospects\nof Europe, in the future of our own British\nEmpire and of the wide world generally. The war\nhas given us a larger consciousness, and we have\nbecome, as some say, Continental. In any case,[x]\nwe are much less insular. France and Russia have\nbecome real places to the man in the street, and the\naccount he gives of them is more credible. Even\nour country labourer can say where Gallipoli is, Mesopotamia,\nEgypt, Salonica, Bulgaria, Serbia, though,\nindeed, I have frequently heard the latter spoken of\nas Siberia. My sons gone to Siberia, says the\ncountryman; its a cold place. Our imagination\nranges farther afield, and young men of all classes\nthink of making far travels when the war is\nover. We are not less interested in other things,\nbut more; only less interested in the old suffocating\nbusiness and industrial life of the time before\nthe war, of the stuffy rooms, the circumscribed\nhorizons, the dull grind. All eyes are opened wider,\nall hearts have greater hopes, and that which dares in\nus dares more. We are reading more, reading better,\nand, among other matters, are thinking more of foreign\ncountries, empires, far-away climes. The war, bringing\nso many nations together, has touched imaginations.\nIt has mixed our themes of conversations and enriched\nour life with new colours, new ideas. So, perhaps,\nthe story of this journey and my impressions of an\ninteresting but remote portion of the Tsars Empire\nwill not come amiss just now. Moreover, during the\nwar many problems have become clearer, especially\nthose of the British Empire, clearer, but none the\nless unsolved, and I feel that a study of a vast stretch[xi]\nof the Russian Empire, and of its problems and its\nprospective future, cannot but be helpful.\nAmong the letters sent me care of The Times there\nis one written about an article which has become a\nchapter in this book:\nSince I was a child and steeped myself in the Arabian\nNights, I have never been so enthralled as I was by an\narticle of yours called Towards Turkestan, which appeared\nin The Times long since, as it seems now (last May?). I\nam an old, tired recluse. I have been reading for over\nsixty years. Im very much extinct, but my desert also\nblossomed with your roses.\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 67938 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Graham, Stephen \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Apr 27, 2022 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher\u003c\/b\u003e: Cassell and Company, Ltd \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublication Date\u003c\/b\u003e: 1916 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Country\u003c\/b\u003e: United Kingdom \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Graham, Stephen,1884-1975 \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43250672730269,"sku":"gb-67938-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/67938.webp?v=1672930922"}],"url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/collections\/travel-former-soviet-republics.oembed","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}