Sir Aurel Stein [sive Aurel Stein, Marc]: On Alexander's Track to the Indus

Personal Narrative of Explorations on the North-West Frontier of India. Carried out under the orders of H. M. Indian Government by Sir Aurel Stein. With numerous Illustrations and Maps from Original Surveys. Reprint of the Edition London 1929. Originally published in 1929, this is Stein's account of the expeditions he mounted following in the footsteps of Alexander the Great during the triumphant invasion that, interestingly, left no trace in Indian literature or tradition. Marc Aurel Stein (1862-1943) was a Hungarian archaeologist who spent much of his life in the service of the British Empire in India. In the early years of the twentieth century, he conducted a series of important Central Asian expeditions traversing virtually the whole of the North-West frontier-territory not previously accessible to Europeans. Stein's account has justifiably achieved cult status for the dangers and hardships encountered during his own expeditions; for the light it sheds on Alexander's invasions, and the wonders of Stein's discoveries (such as Alexander's Aornos); the illumination it offers on all fields of interest from archaeology to Indian literary culture, Greco-Buddhist art and the spread of Buddhism right across Asia. XIII,182 Seiten und 32 Tafeln, gebunden (Castle Books 2004) textsauber, mit leichten Gebrauchsspuren/clean text pages, minor traces of use

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