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Journey to the North of India - Overland from England, through Russia, Persia, and Affghaunistaun (Paperback)
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Journey to the North of India - Overland from England, through Russia, Persia, and Affghaunistaun (Paperback)
Series: Journey to the North of India 2 Volume Set, Volume 1
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The Great Game, a coinage credited to the British officer Arthur
Conolly (1807 42), refers to the nineteenth-century rivalry between
Britain and Russia as each power sought supremacy in Central Asia.
In a climate of tension and suspicion that the Russians might
attempt to invade India via Afghanistan, Conolly, returning from
sick leave in England, embarked in 1829 on an expedition through
the region. His narrative provides observations on the various
Asiatic peoples he encountered, including the social, religious and
political aspects of their cultures. He describes also the many
dangers he had to deal with, requiring him to assume a series of
false identities. The risks that Conolly faced were underscored
some years later, when he was captured and executed in Bukhara.
Volume 1 recounts the first part of his journey, from St
Petersburg, through the Caucasus, via Tiflis and Tehran, towards
Herat."
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