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Travels into Bokhara: The Narrative of a Voyage on the Indus

By Alexander Burnes, Kathleen Hopkirk (Editor), William Dalrymple (Introduction)
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By Alexander Burnes, Kathleen Hopkirk (Editor), William Dalrymple (Introduction)
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Sent to India aged just sixteen to make his fortune, Alexander Burnes soon revealed an extraordinary talent for languages, combined with a boyish charm, insatiable curiosity, and irrepressible enthusiasm. By the age of 26 he had so impressed his superiors that he was entrusted with the task of delivering a gift of horses from King William IV to the Maharajah of Lahore. In reality he was acting as a diplomat and spy. Having succeeded, he was then dispatched on a much more dangerous mission, ...

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