Author: Robertson, George S.
Title: KAFIRISTAN.
Description: Sasor Publisher, 1982. Facsimile Reprint. Sm. Slim 4to. [iv] + 104pp. Original white lettered black pictorial limp card wrapps., some light browning, edges and spine sl. rubbed, upper leading corner of upper wrapp. sl. creased. ¶ ‘A detailed ethnographic study of the people of Kafiristan first published in 1895 in an edition of 50 copies only. Sir George Scott Robertson, the first European to enter Kafiristan, spent a year in the Bushgul Valley in 1889 while serving as a British Agent in Chitral. Under the Durand agreement most of Kafiristan was ceded to Afghanistan in 1893.’

Keywords: VOYAGES AND TRAVEL; CENTRAL ASIA


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