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03506nam a22002897a 4500 |
| 003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER |
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OSt |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION |
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20181110113423.0 |
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| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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| Transcribing agency |
ACKU |
| 041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE |
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| Language code of text/sound track or separate title |
eng |
| 043 ## - GEOGRAPHIC AREA CODE |
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| Geographic area code |
a-af--- |
| 050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
DS437. |
| Item number |
P688 1816 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Pottinger, Henry, Sir, |
| Dates associated with a name |
1789-1856. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Travels in Beloochistan and Sinde, accompanied by : |
| Remainder of title |
a geographical and historical account of those countries, with a map / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
by Henry Pottinger. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc |
London : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc |
1816. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
xxx, 423 pages : |
| Other physical details |
color maps ; |
| Dimensions |
30 cm. |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE |
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| General note |
“Travels in Beloochistan and Sinde is a first-hand account of a journey taken in 1810‒11 through parts of present-day India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, and Iraq. The author, Henry Pottinger (1789‒1856), was a lieutenant in the East India Company who, along with a friend and fellow officer, Captain Charles Christie, volunteered to undertake a mission to the region between India and Persia (present-day Iran), about which the East India Company at that time had little knowledge. The two men journeyed from Bombay (present-day Mumbai) to Sind (present-day southeast Pakistan) from where, disguised as Indians, they traveled overland to Kalat. They were quickly recognized as Europeans, but they were able to continue their journey to Nushki, near the present-day border between Afghanistan and Pakistan. There the men separated. Pottinger continued westward to Persia, through Kerman to Shiraz and Isfahan. Christie traveled north from Nushki into Afghanistan, through Helmand to Herat and from there into Persia to Yazd and Isfahan, where he rejoined Pottinger. Christie was directed to remain in Persia, where in 1812 he was killed in a Russian attack. Pottinger returned to Bombay via Baghdad and Basra. The book is in two parts. The first is a detailed account of Pottinger’s journey, with observations on climate, terrain, soil, plants and animals, peoples and tribes, customs, religion, and popular beliefs. The second is an introduction to the history and geography of the provinces of Baluchistan and Sind. An appendix reproduces part of the journal kept by Christie on his travels through Afghanistan. The book contains one colored illustration at the front and a large fold-out map after the end of the text. Pottinger went on to have a distinguished career with the East India Company and the British government. In April 1843 he was appointed the first British governor of Hong Kong”—copied from website. |
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| General note |
The Library of Congress donated copies of the digitized material (along with extensive bibliographic records) containing more than 163,000 pages of documents to ACKU, the collections that include thousands of historical, cultural, and scholarly materials dating from the early 1300s to the 1990s includes books, manuscripts, maps, photographs, newspapers and periodicals related to Afghanistan in Pushto, Dari, as well as in English, French, German, Russian and other European languages ACKU has a PDF copy of the item. |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Linkage |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| 546 ## - LANGUAGE NOTE |
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| Language note |
English |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Baluchistan – History. |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Baluchistan – Description and travel. |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME |
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| Geographic name |
Sindh (Pakistan) – Description and travel. |
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| Geographic name |
Sindh (Pakistan) – History. |
| 856 ## - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS |
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| Electronic format type |
PDF |
| Uniform Resource Identifier |
<a href="https://doi.org/10.29171/azu_acku_ds437_p688_1816 ">https://doi.org/10.29171/azu_acku_ds437_p688_1816 </a> |
| Public note |
Scanned for ACKU. |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme |
Library of Congress Classification |
| Koha item type |
Monograph |
| Call number prefix |
azu_acku_ds437_p688_1816 |