Travels into BokharaAuthor: Burnes, Alexander, Hopkirk, Kathleen India Published on 19 January 2012 by Eland Publishing Ltd in the United Kingdom. Paperback 252 pages, Illustrations, maps 209 x 140 x 16 326g Alexander Burnes travelled up the Indus to Lahore and to the Khanates of Afghanistan and Central Asia in the 1830s, spying on behalf of the British Government in what was to become known as the 'Great Game'. His account of these travels was a bestseller in its day

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