From London to Bokhara: A Ride Through Persia (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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The journey terminated at Bombay on December 9, 1887, and by the end of that year my notes were printed and placed at the disposal of the Viceroy. Lord Dufferin, a few days before he left India, granted me permission to publish my narrative, and so it happens that much of my story relates to events which now are a year old.

I have endeavoured to follow the excellent advice given years ago by Mountstuart Elphinstone when criticising the manuscript of Burnes's travels, 'that a narrative of this kind should be in the highest degree plain and simple.'

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