Afghanistan

Name: Afghanistan
Author: Hamilton, A. (Angus)

Hamilton, A. (Angus)

Afghanistan; Asia, Central -- Description and travel; Eastern question (Central Asia)

The works consulted in the preparation of this volume, including
references to the _Encyclopædia Britannica_, embrace most of the
well-known writers on Asiatic Russia, Persia, Afghanistan, and the
Indian Frontier. Among those of less recent date are the books of
Bellew, Connelly, Elphinstone, Ferrier, Lansdell, MacGregor, Marvin,
Pottinger, Rawlinson, Vambéry, Wood and Yule.

Contemporary authorities, to which the author is more especially
indebted, are as follows:

  BRUCE, R. I.                     _The Forward Policy and its Results_.
  CHIROL, VALENTINE                _The Middle Eastern Question_.
  CURZON, LORD                     _Russia in Central Asia_.
     ”     ”                       _Persia and the Persian Question_.
     ”     ”                       _The Pamirs and the Source of the
                                      Oxus_.
  DALY, MRS. KATE                  _Eight Years among the Afghans_.
  GRAY, DR. A. J.                  _My Residence at the Court of the
                                      Amir_.
  HOLDICH, COLONEL SIR T. H.       _The Indian Borderland_.
  KEANE, A. H.                     _Asia_.
  LANSDELL, H.                     _Russia in Central Asia_.
  OLUFSEN, O.                      _Through the Unknown Pamirs_.
  ROBERTS, FIELD MARSHAL LORD      _Forty-one Years in India_.
  RONALDSHAY, EARL OF              _Sport and Politics under an Eastern
                                      Sky_.
     ”     ”     ”                 _On the Outskirts of Empire in Asia_.
  SHOEMAKER, M. M.                 _The Heart of the Orient_.
  SKRINE, F. H., and ROSS, E. D.   _The Heart of Asia_.
  SULTAN MAHOMED KHAN              _Laws and Constitution of Afghanistan_.
     ”     ”     ”                 _The Life of Abdur Rahman, Amir of
                                      Afghanistan_.
  THORBURN, S. S.                  _The Punjab in Peace and War_.
  YATE, A. C.                      _England and Russia Face to Face_.
  YATE, C. E.                      _Kurasan and Seistan_.
     ”    ”                        _Northern Afghanistan_.

Together with scientific papers, lectures and articles by:

  COLONEL DE LA POER BERESFORD.
  MAJOR CLEVELAND.
  MAJOR-GENERAL SIR EDWIN COLLEN.
  MRS. KATE DALY.
  MAJOR-GENERAL SIR EDMOND ELLES.
  SIR LEPEL GRIFFIN.
  MISS LILLIAS HAMILTON.
  COLONEL SIR THOMAS HOLDICH.
  COLONEL SIR HENRY MACMAHON.

And including all Parliamentary, Consular, and other official
publications, the files of _The Times_, _Morning Post_, _Standard_,
_Daily Chronicle_ in England; and _The Pioneer_, _Times of India_, and
_Indian Daily News_ in India; besides the more prominent Continental
organs.

     ROYAL SOCIETIES CLUB, ST. JAMES’S
             _June 1, 1906_.




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