1843 A Journal of the Disasters in Afghanistan 1841-2

Description

Early Edition, Folding Maps, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding

The sixth thousand of the first edition of this work, in the publisher's original cloth binding.

Illustrated with a folding map, and one map plate. Collated, complete.

In this volume, Lady Florentia Sale provides an account of the nine months she spent as a hostage of Akbar Khan following the massacre in the Khurd Karbul Pass.

During her time as a captive, Lady Sale kept a diary, detailing the events of the ordeal in a matter of fact manner. She sent parts of her diary through her captives to her husband. He sent it on to the authorities in England, and it was quoted in the papers.

With a twelve page publisher's catalogue to the rear.

With the bookplate of C. E. Rusbridge to the front pastedown. 

Sale was dubbed "the Grenadier in Petticoats" for her travels with the British army.