Übersichts-Blatt Afghanistan und den Ländern an der Nord-West Grenze Von Indien / contributors Zimmermann, E. H. Carl. Schroeder.

German language.

“Overview of Afghanistan and the Countries on the Northwest Border of India : Carl Zimmermann was a first lieutenant in the Prussian Army who, in the early 1840s, developed a strong personal and professional interest in the conflict then being waged by the British Army in Afghanistan. In what became known as the First Anglo-Afghan War (1839-40), Britain tried to extend its control from India northwest into Afghanistan, but suffered a series of disastrous defeats at the hands of the Afghan tribes and eventually was forced to withdraw. In 1842 Zimmermann published Der Kriegs-Schauplatz in Inner-Asien (The theater of war in inner Asia), a book in which he attempted to bring the geographic knowledge that the British had accumulated about Afghanistan and its environs to a German audience. Zimmermann based this map on English sources, in particular Geographer to the Queen James Wyld's “Notes to a Map of Afghanistan” and East-India Company geographer John Walker's “Skeleton Map of Afghanistan and the Countries on the North-West-Frontier of India”—copied from website.

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.

Includes notes and inset of legends.

German