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Travels into Bokhara: containing the narrative of a voyage on the Indus from the sea to Lahore, ... and an account of a journey from India to Cabool, Tartary and Persia ; performed by order of the supreme government of India, in the years 1831, 32, and 33

Burnes, Alexander · 1835 · 4 pictures

Alexander Burnes's 1835 travelogue recounts his official journey by order of the Indian government up the Indus to Lahore and on through Cabool, Tartary and Persia, published for a European readership. The pictures are engraved plates: a rotated rocky landscape, a domed brick monument on a mound, a page of ancient coins with a stamp-marked caption, and a bust-length portrait of a man in a turban labelled as Bokhara costume, giving a designer sketchy hatching and classic period plate styles.

Literatur zu Südasien · Reiseberichte · Literature on South Asia · Travelogues

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