Through the Heart of Asia, Volume 2: Over the Pamïr to India

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 accou...

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Beteilige Person: Bonvalot, Gabriel (VerfasserIn)
Weitere beteiligte Personen: Pitman, C. B. (ÜbersetzerIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1889
Schriftenreihe:Cambridge library collection. Travel and Exploration in Asia
Links:https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139198547
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139198547
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139198547
Zusammenfassung: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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Umfang:1 online resource (274 pages)
ISBN:9781139198547
DOI:10.1017/CBO9781139198547