Journey To The North Of India, Overland From England, Through Russia, Persia, And Affghaunistaun - HARDCOVER , VOL -1

About the Book:-The narrator reveals that this is a narrative of an overland journey that undertook from St. Petersburg in Russia to Hissar (a small town just North of Delhi, India). Starting from London on the 10th of August 1829, the author makes his way from Russia to Tabriz and thence to Tehran in Iran. It is from here that he starts his narrative in detail. Traveling along the Southern shore of the Caspian Sea, he makes an aborted attempt to reach the Central Asian town of Khiva; retracing his steps, he travels along the North of Iran and passes into Afghanistan to Herat. Travelling through Afghanistan, passing into North Baluchistan, he turns north from Khyrpur in Sindh and finally crosses into India to halt at Hissar on the 14th of Jan 1831. The writer was a player of the Great Game, and his journey was a mission of reconnaissance to access the possibilities of an overland invasion of India by the Russians and French. Along the route he describes the terrain and offers copious note of the people and their habits. The book ends with a chapter on the history of Afghanistan and another chapter on an envisioned invasion of India; a map illustrating the route accompanies the book and a plate. About the Author:-Arthur Conolly (1807 – 1842,) was a British intelligence officer, explorer and writer. He was a captain of the 6th Bengal Light Cavalry in the service of the British East India Company. He participated in many reconnaissance missions into Central Asia and coined the term The Great Game to describe the struggle between the British Empire and the Russian Empire for domination over Central Asia. In 1841, in an attempt to counter the growing penetration of Russia into Central Asia, Conolly unsuccessfully tried to persuade the various khanates to put aside their differences. In November 1841 he was captured on a rescue mission to free fellow British officer Lieutenant Colonel Charles Stoddart held in Bukhara