A Journey form Bengal to England, Through the Northern Part of India, Kashmire, Afghanistan and Persia and into Russia, by the Caspian-Sea VOL. 2 - Paperback

About The Book : Books of Voyages and Travels having been ever held in estimation, and indulgently received, I am the less fearful of submitting the following volume to the notice of the public. A knowledge of the manners of different nations qualifies domestic prejudice, and enlightens the mind; but the subjects of Britain derive from it a singular benefit; they see through a comparison that communicates a fond pleasure to the heart, the unrivalled excellency of their laws, constitution and government; they see these rare gifts brightly reflected on their national character, which still avowedly maintains its pre-eminence amongst and nations of the European world. Travellers stand accused, even, on proverbial authority, of adopting a figurative and loose style of description; and as thrown into tracks, removed from the eye of European observation.The cursory differentiation on the former and present state of Bengal, may have some claim to favour, from the consideration that I visited that province in the description of a passenger. How strong the contrast appears in the inhabitant of the Punjab; those even of domestic and laborious professions, are brave, daring, and often cruel. About The Author : George Forster (1750-1792) was an English traveller and civil servant of the East India Company, on the Madras establishment. He has sometimes been confused with the German naturalist Georg Forster. He is notable for being the first Briton to have journeyed from India through Central Asia to Russia and published a journal of his travels. In 1782 Forster undertook a journey that began in Calcutta, Bengal and passed through Kashmir, Afghanistan, Herat, Khorasan, and Mazandaran, crossed the Caspian Sea by ship, and then travelled to Baku, Astrakhan, Moscow, St Petersburg and then by ship to London. In 1792 he was sent on an embassy to the Mahrattas, and died at Nagpore (called Nagpur in modern times)