On the Indian Frontier

Name: On the Indian Frontier
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ISBN: 9780199063574

ISBN-10: 0199063575

ISBN-13: 9780199063574

Edition: 2012

Authors: George Curzon, Dhara Anjaria

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In 1894, the explorer, geographer, geopolitical analyst - and future Viceroy of India, George Nathaniel Curzon, undertook a twelve hundred mile trek across the Pamirs. Over fifty-four days, averaging twenty-one miles a day, he rode across some of the most hostile terrain in Asia, breaking hisjourney only to stay over with the local chiefs and take the occasional pot shot at the famed Ovis Poli. Curzon's main objective in making this journey, was to see for himself that terrain from which the security of Britain's Indian empire could be breached, engage with the fiercely independent little kingdoms so strategically located at the gateway to the Indian Empire, and thus (hopefully)…

Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/22/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 350
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English