Through the Heart of Asia, Volume 2: Over the Pamïr to India (Cambridge Library Collection - Travel and Exploration in Asia) - Softcover

Bonvalot, Gabriel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1108046398 ISBN 13: 9781108046398

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2012

Synopsis

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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Book Description:

French explorer, author and legislator Gabriel Bonvalot (1853–1933) received funding from the French government to lead expeditions to Central Asia in the 1880s. This 1889 work is an account of the second Asian expedition. In Volume 2 the expedition reaches Chatral and is again imprisoned but eventually reaches India.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1108046398
• ISBN 13: 9781108046398
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 274