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20181015135051.0 |
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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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| 050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
DS352. |
| Item number |
W66 1872 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Wood, John, |
| Dates associated with a name |
1811-1871. |
| 245 12 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
A journey to the source of the river Oxus : |
| Remainder of title |
with an essay on the geography of the vally of the Oxus by Henry Yule / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
by John Wood. |
| 250 1# - EDITION STATEMENT |
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| Edition statement |
New edition. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc |
London : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
John Murray, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc |
1872. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
xc, 280, 12 pages : |
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illustration, maps ; |
| Dimensions |
30 cm. |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE |
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| General note |
“John Wood (1811–71) was an officer in the navy of the East India Company who in 1836 was appointed to take part in a mission to Afghanistan led by Alexander Burnes. His instructions were to “ascend the Indus from its mouth to Attock, that a more perfect knowledge of the river may be procured, as well for purposes of commerce as of war….” He proceeded upstream to the region of Kunduz, Afghanistan, and in February 1838 discovered what he thought was the source of the Oxus (Amu Darya) River, located in the Pamir Mountains at what he estimated was latitude 37° 27’ North and 73° 40’ East (most likely in present-day Tajikistan). Wood subsequently resigned from the Indian navy in a dispute over British policy toward Afghanistan and what he believed was the breaking of good-faith assurances he had given the Afghans about British intentions. Journey to the Source of the Oxus is Wood’s account of his expedition and discoveries, first published in 1841. Presented here is the second edition, which appeared in London in 1872. Wood was one of the first Europeans to visit many remote regions of present-day Pakistan and Afghanistan. The book includes observations on topography and hydrology, climate, economic activity, religion, politics and history, and different ethnic groups encountered, including Uzbeks, Tajiks, Hazaras, Kyrghyz, Kaffirs, Kazakhs, and others. The book includes many interesting anecdotes, for example, encounters with local chiefs claiming to be descended from Alexander the Great. Wood estimated that his party at one point reached a height of 14,400 feet (4,389 meters) above sea level, and he offers speculations about the as-yet poorly understood effects of altitude on the human body. The book contains a fold-out map of the upper Oxus and another of Wood’s route up the Indus”—copied from website. |
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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. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Amu Darya. |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME |
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| Geographic name |
Afghanistan – Description and travel. |
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| Geographic name |
Pakistan – Description and travel. |
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| Geographic name |
Tajikistan – Description and travel. |
| 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_ds352_w66_1872 ">https://doi.org/10.29171/azu_acku_ds352_w66_1872 </a> |
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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_ds352_w66_1872 |