The Hero of Herat : A Frontier Biography in Romantic Form (1912)
The Hero of Herat : A Frontier Biography in Romantic Form (1912) Maud Diver
Date: 02 Jun 2008
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Original Languages: English
Book Format: Hardback::468 pages
ISBN10: 1436542871
ISBN13: 9781436542876
Dimension: 152x 229x 30mm::853g
Read online The Hero of Herat : A Frontier Biography in Romantic Form (1912). The Afghan connection:the extraordinary adventures of Major Eldred Pottinger George Pottinger ( Book ); The judgment of the sword:the tale of the Kabul tragedy, and of the part played therein Major Eldred Pottinger, the hero of Herat Maud Diver ( Book ); The hero of Herat:a frontier biography in romantic form Maud Diver ( Book )
Between the 4th and 19th centuries, the northwestern area of modern Afghanistan was referred to the regional name Khorasan. Two of the four capitals of Khorasan (Herat and Balkh) are now located in Afghanistan, while the regions of Kandahar, Zabulistan, Ghazni, Kabulistan, and Afghanistan formed the frontier between Khorasan and Hindustan.
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The judgment of the sword:the tale of the Kabul tragedy, and of the part played therein Major Eldred Pottinger, the hero of Herat / Maud Diver Diver, Maud, 1867-1945 [ Book:1913-1924 ] At 6 libraries
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The Hero Of Herat: A Frontier Biography In Romantic Form (1912) Maud Diver (Author) ISBN-13: 978-0548703632. ISBN-10: 0548703639. Why is ISBN important? ISBN. This bar-code number lets you verify that you're getting exactly the right version or edition of a book. The 13-digit and 10-digit formats both work. Scan an ISBN with your phone Use the Amazon App to scan ISBNs and compare prices.
Diver, Maud. THE HERO OF HERAT. 14.00:A Frontier Biography in Romantic Form. 441pp. Map. The first volume of a fictionalised biography of Major Eldred Pottinger. Ownership inscription from 1912. Portrait frontispiece loose. Otherwise very good indeed. 1912 First edition, Constable.
In 1837 Eldred Pottinger traveled from Peshawar to Kabul and Herat, disguised as a horse dealer. Soon after his arrival in Herat, the city was besieged the Persian army with the assistance of Russian officers. Pottinger left Herat in 1839 but returned to Afghanistan in 1841 as
The hero of Herat:a frontier biography in romantic form / (London:J. Murray, [1930]), Maud Diver (page images at HathiTrust) The hero of Herat; a frontier romance, (New York and London, G. P. Putnam's sons, 1913), Maud Diver (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Diver, Maud, The Hero of Herat: A Frontier Biography in Romantic Form, London: Constable, 1912. Enthusiastic burnisher of the imperial myth celebrates the exploits of Major Eldred Pottinger. Doubleday, Veronica, Three Women of Herat, London: Jonathan Cape, 1988; Austin: University of Texas Press, 1990. Intimate and sympathetic account of low-status professional women musicians in Herat with whom
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