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Book/Printed MaterialRecollections of the Kabul campaign, 1879 & 1880. Recollections of the Kabul Campaign, 1879 & 1880 is a firsthand account of the Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878-80). The author, Joshua Duke, was a British officer in the Bengal Medical Service, attached to "our native army in India." The war began in November 1878 when Great Britain, fearful of what it saw as growing Russian influence in Afghanistan, invaded the country from British India....
- Contributor: Duke, Joshua
- Date: 1883-01-01
- Resource: - 510 pages
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Book/Printed MaterialThrough unknown African countries : the first expedition from Somaliland to Lake Rudolf Advertisements at end. This issue printed in the U.S., copyright 1897. Differs from first issue in having "Lake Rudolf" in place of "Lake Lamu" in title and in having the maps bound in before index instead of interspersed throughout text. In publisher's cloth binding, gold stamped on spine. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. digital files not viewed;...
- Contributor: Smith, Arthur Donaldson - Crick, G. C. (George Charles) - Simon, Eugène - Pocock, R. I. (Reginald Innes) - Culin, Stewart - Holland, W. J. (William Jacob) - Gregory, J. W. (John Walter) - Günther, Albert C. L. G. (Albert Carl Ludwig Gotthilf) - Jordan, Karl
- Date: 1897-01-01
- Resource: - 1 page
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Book/Printed MaterialThe Afghan war of 1879-80, The Afghan War of 1879-80 is a detailed account of the final phase of the Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878-80), consisting of a reprinting in book form of letters originally written from the field and published in an Indian newspaper. The author, Howard Hensman, was a special correspondent of the Allahabad Pioneer. He was the only journalist to accompany the Anglo-Indian Kurram Valley Field Force...
- Contributor: Hensman, Howard
- Date: 1881-01-01
- Resource: - 1 page
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Book/Printed MaterialDescriptive sociology;
- Contributor: Spencer, Herbert
- Date: 1870-01-01
- Resource: - 4 pages
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Book/Printed MaterialPersonal records of the Kandahar campaign, The Kandahar Campaign was the last phase of the Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878-80). It began in late June 1880, when Ayub Khan, the governor of Herat, led an Afghan force toward Kandahar, then occupied by an Anglo-Indian army. A column of troops under Brigadier General George Burrows was sent from Kandahar to try to intercept Ayub Khan's force but was defeated in a fierce...
- Contributor: Ashe, Waller
- Date: 1881-01-01
- Resource: - 368 pages
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Book/Printed MaterialThe Afghan campaigns, of 1878-1880, The Afghan Campaigns of 1878-1880 is a two-volume account of the Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878-80) by Sydney H. Shadbolt, a London barrister and the author of works on imperial subjects. The first volume, entitled "Historical Division," includes a sketch of the war and the movements of the forces, illustrated by maps. The second volume, entitled "Biographical Division," contains albumen photographs and short biographies of...
- Contributor: Shadbolt, Sydney Henry - Shadbolt, S. H. (Sydney Henry)
- Date: 1882-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialViews of Kabul and environs from pictures taken by the photograph school of the Corps of Bengal Sappers and Miners.
- Contributor: Thackeray, Edward Talbot - Thackeray, E. T. (Edward Talbot)
- Date: 1881-01-01
- Resource: - 178 pages
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Book/Printed MaterialAfghanistan: a short account of Afghanistan, its history, and our dealings with it. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. digital files not viewed; td12 2013-7-16
- Contributor: Walker, P. F.
- Date: 1881-01-01
- Resource: - 202 pages
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Book/Printed MaterialA general collection of the best and most interesting voyages and travels in all parts of the world; many of which are now first translated into English. Digested on a new plan ... "Catalogue of books of voyages and travels": v. 17, p. [1]-255. Vol. 13 is also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LAC ael 2020-10-22 update (2 cards)
- Contributor: Pinkerton, John - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1808-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialA general collection of the best and most interesting voyages and travels in all parts of the world; many of which are now first translated into English. Digested on a new plan ... "Catalogue of books of voyages and travels": v. 17, p. [1]-255. Vol. 13 is also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LAC ael 2020-10-22 update (2 cards)
- Contributor: Pinkerton, John - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1808-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialPersian Gulf pilot, comprising the Persian Gulf, the Gulf of Omán and the Makrán Coast. Persian Gulf Pilot, Comprising the Persian Gulf, the Gulf of Oman and the Makran Coast is a guide to navigation in the Persian Gulf and adjacent waters. It contains detailed, precisely written descriptions of the features on the shores and the coastal waters of the Arabian Peninsula, Iran, Iraq, Makran (in present-day Pakistan and Iran), and the Gulf of Oman. The work was published...
- Contributor: United States. Hydrographic Office
- Date: 1920-01-01
- Resource: - 362 pages
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Book/Printed MaterialThe heart of a continent: a narrative of travels in Manchuria, across the Gobi desert, through the Himalayas, the Pamirs, and Chitral, 1884-1894. Edited by John Murray.
- Contributor: Younghusband, Francis Edward - Murray, John IV
- Date: 1896-01-01
- Resource: - 486 pages
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Book/Printed MaterialA narrative of the mission sent by the governor-general of India to the court of Ava in 1855, with notices of the country, government, and people. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. digital files not viewed; td12 2008-11-3
- Contributor: Yule, Henry
- Date: 1858-01-01
- Resource: - 512 pages
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Book/Printed MaterialThe land of Midian (revisited). LAC ael 2019-03-21 update (1 card)
- Contributor: Burton, Richard Francis
- Date: 1879-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialEighteen years in the Khyber, 1879-1898, "1st. ed. January 1900, reprinted April 1900." Ed. by his widow, Mary (Cecil) lady Warburton.
- Contributor: Warburton, Mary Cecil - Warburton, Robert
- Date: 1900-01-01
- Resource: - 405 pages
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Book/Printed MaterialJournal of a political mission to Afghanistan, in 1857, under Major (now Colonel) Lumsden; with an account of the country and people. Journal of a Political Mission to Afghanistan is an account of a mission undertaken by Henry Burnett Lumsden, a British officer in the Indian army, to Kandahar, Afghanistan, in 1857. Lumsden's assignment was to ensure that the subsidies paid by the government of India to Amir Dost Mohammad Khan, ruler of Afghanistan, were being used for the upkeep of troops employed to defend Afghanistan...
- Contributor: Bellew, H. W. (Henry Walter) - Bellew, [Henry] W[Alter]
- Date: 1862-01-01
- Resource: - 514 pages
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Book/Printed MaterialNarrative of an expedition to the Zambesi and its tributaries; and of the discovery of the lakes Shirwa and Nyassa. 1858-1864. Scottish missionary and explorer David Livingstone (1813-73) made three great African voyages: across the continent in 1852-56, up the Zambezi River in 1858-64, and the unsuccessful attempt to find the source of the Nile in 1866-73. Narrative of an Expedition to the Zambezi and Its Tributaries is Livingstone's account of the second journey. It was on this voyage, in 1859, that Livingstone reached and...
- Contributor: Livingstone, Charles - Livingstone, David
- Date: 1865-01-01
- Resource: - 664 pages
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Book/Printed MaterialThe Kabul Insurrection of 1841-42 [Revised and corrected from Lieutenant Eyre's original manuscript.] Previously published under title : The military operations at Cabul, which ended in the retreat and destruction of the British Army, January 1842.
- Contributor: Eyre, Vincent - Malleson, G. B. (George Bruce)
- Date: 1879-01-01
- Resource: - 355 pages
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Book/Printed MaterialJournal of a diplomate's three years' residence in Persia. Edward Backhouse Eastwick (1814-83) was a British orientalist scholar and diplomat, best known for his translations of Persian literary classics. After being educated at Balliol and Merton colleges, Oxford, Eastwick went to India where he joined the Bombay infantry as a cadet. He soon moved over to the East India Company, and later to the British civil service, largely because of his proficiency in...
- Contributor: Eastwick, Edward Backhouse
- Date: 1864-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialThe military operations at Cabul, which ended in the retreat and destruction of the British army, January 1842. The Military Operations at Cabul is comprised primarily of the journal kept by Lieutenant Vincent Eyre (1811-81) before and during the time he was held prisoner in the First Anglo-Afghan War (1839-42). Appointed commissary of ordnance to the Kabul Field Force that marched into Afghanistan in the fall of 1839, Eyre arrived in Kabul in April 1840, bringing with him a large quantity of...
- Contributor: Eyre, Vincent
- Date: 1843-01-01
- Resource: - 349 pages
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Book/Printed MaterialAfghanistan and the Anglo-Russian dispute; Theophilus Francis Rodenbough (1838-1912) was a Union Army officer during the American Civil War, who received the Congressional Medal of Honor for his actions at the Battle of Trevilian Station (Virginia) in June 1864. After his retirement from the Army in 1870, Rodenbough wrote several books on military themes. He composed Afghanistan and the Anglo-Russian Dispute very rapidly in the spring of 1885, as...
- Contributor: Rodenbough, Theo[Philus] F[Rancis] - Rodenbough, Theophilus F. (Theophilus Francis)
- Date: 1885-01-01
- Resource: - 165 pages
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Book/Printed MaterialUnexplored Syria. Visits to the Libanus, the Tulúl el Safá, the Anti-Libanus, the northern Libanus, and the 'Aláh.
- Contributor: Burton, Richard Francis - Drake, Charles F. Tyrwhitt (Charles Frederick Tyrwhitt)
- Date: 1872-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialNarrative of a journey into Khorasān, in the years 1821 and 1822. Including some account of the countries to the north-east of Persia; with remarks upon the national character, government, and resources ... Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. digital files not viewed; td12 2013-7-16
- Contributor: Fraser, James Baillie
- Date: 1825-01-01
- Resource: - 800 pages
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Book/Printed MaterialTo the Gold Coast for gold; a personal narrative,
- Contributor: Burton, Richard Francis - Cameron, Verney Lovett
- Date: 1883-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialThe last journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa. From eighteen hundred and sixty-five to his death. David Livingstone (1813-73) was a Scottish missionary and medical doctor who explored much of the interior of Africa. Livingstone's most famous expedition was in 1866-73, when he traversed much of central Africa in an attempt to find the source of the Nile. This book contains the daily journals that Livingstone kept on this expedition, from his first entry on January 28, 1866, when he...
- Contributor: Livingstone, David - Waller, Horace
- Date: 1875-01-01
- Resource: - 615 pages