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A Personal Narrative of a Journey to the Source of the River Oxus, by the Route of the Indus, Kabul, and Badakhshan


by John Wood

  • TRAVEL NARRATIVE
  • 2009
  • PAPER
  • 442 PAGES
  • OUT OF PRINT

Lieutenant Wood of the East India Company gives an account of his exploration in Afghanistan between 1836 and 1838. (CAS196, $36.95)

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