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Cabool: Being a Personal Narrative of a Journey to, and Residence in That city, in the Years 1836, 7, and 8.

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Published by Time-Life Books, Classics of Exploration, 1982, facsimile reprint of the 1842 edition, index, 398 pages, gilt fore-edging, marbled effect to endpapers; large, folding map, numerous plates; silk marker. condition; as new.

In the long and often disastrous history of British entanglement in Afghanistan, the name of Alexander Burnes (180541) deserves to be remembered. Aged sixteen, he went to India to take up a post in the 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 and to observe the expansionist activities of the Russians in central Asia. (Burnes' 1834 account of this journey is also reissued in this series.) In 1836, he was sent to Kabul, and became involved in the British plan to replace Dost Muhammad Khan with Shah Shuja (which he personally thought a mistake). The British became a focus of increasing local discontent, and in November 1841 Burnes was murdered in Kabul by a mob. This account of his stay in the city was published posthumously in 1842.

This book is part of the Classics of Exploration Library . The books in the library have been out of print for decades, and therefore not accessible to the public. Now brought back into print after many decades, the material have been copied in facsimile from the original editions, with each title meticulously hand curated.

The book is as close as possible to the original work.

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