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Alexander Burnes
(
16. kv?tna
1805
,
Montrose
,
Angus
,
Skotsko
?
2. listopadu
1841
,
Kabul
,
Afghanistan
) byl britsky cestovatel a dobrodruh. V mladi se dostal v slu?bach
Britske Vychodoindicke spole?nosti
do
Indie
, kde se za?al u?it
hindustan?tinu
a
per?tinu
. U?astnil se
prvni anglo-afghanske valky
, o svych cestach po Indii a st?edni Asii vydal n?kolik publikaci.
- Travels into Bokhara. Being an account of a Journey from India to Cabool, Tartary and Persia. Also, narrative of a Voyage on the Indus from the Sea to Lahore
(London: John Murray) 1834 3 Vols.
- "On the Commerce of Shikarpur and Upper Scinde"
Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society
Vol. II 1836-8 (Bombay: American Mission Press) Reprinted 1844 pp315-9
- Cabool. Being a Personal Narrative of a Journey to, and Residence in that City in the years 1836, 7, and 8
(London: John Murray) 1842 (Posthumous)