Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 323William Blackwood, 1978 - England |
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Page 244
... Bamian River which , becoming the Kunduz , emptied into the broad Oxus , or Amu Darya , to be lost eventually in the Aral Sea of Soviet Asia . There is a story that both Alexander and the Great Khan paused on this spot : one gazed east ...
... Bamian River which , becoming the Kunduz , emptied into the broad Oxus , or Amu Darya , to be lost eventually in the Aral Sea of Soviet Asia . There is a story that both Alexander and the Great Khan paused on this spot : one gazed east ...
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... Bamian , and in the City Museum the curator showed me a finely wrought bronze casket bearing the image of Kanishka himself . Next morning we motored to the foot of the greater Buddha . Though sadly ravaged by weather ( and man ) , he ...
... Bamian , and in the City Museum the curator showed me a finely wrought bronze casket bearing the image of Kanishka himself . Next morning we motored to the foot of the greater Buddha . Though sadly ravaged by weather ( and man ) , he ...
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... Bamian , which , disguised as an Afghan , he visited in 1835. He was certainly the first to publish a detailed , if speculative , description.1 Seven years later the British prisoners captured on the disastrous retreat from Kabul were ...
... Bamian , which , disguised as an Afghan , he visited in 1835. He was certainly the first to publish a detailed , if speculative , description.1 Seven years later the British prisoners captured on the disastrous retreat from Kabul were ...
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P A GIBB CRICKETER BY GERALD PAWLE 301 | 100 |
AFGHAN QUEST BY J M BRERETON | 236 |
POETS AND PEASANTS BY TREVOR ROYLE | 307 |
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