Name: Through the Heart of Asia - Volume 1 (Cambridge Library Collection - Travel and Exploration in Asia) (en Inglés)
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Author: Gabriel Bonvalot
ISBN: 9781108046381

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Through the Heart of Asia - Volume 1 (Cambridge Library Collection - Travel and Exploration in Asia) (en Inglés)

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Libro Físico

Editorial

Cambridge University Press

Autor

Gabriel Bonvalot

Año

2012

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

308

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN

110804638x

ISBN13

9781108046381

Categorías

Europa
Historia de europa: renacimiento

Through the Heart of Asia - Volume 1 (Cambridge Library Collection - Travel and Exploration in Asia) (en Inglés)

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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 1, Bonvalot describes the journey from Marseille via Tehran to Samarkand, interspersing his narrative with observations of the climate and culture they encounter. At the Afghan border, guards warn that 'they will hack us to pieces and throw our bodies into the stream'.