ALEXANDER'S CAMPAIGN ON THE INDIAN NORTH-WEST FRONTIER. Notes From Explorations Between Upper Swat and The Indus.

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SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY. London: Reprinted from The Geographical Journal for November and December 1927. [417]-540p + 1 pp. Folding map at rear. Printed blue wrappers with off print title. Very good. Inscribed and signed copies by Aurel Stein are rare. This Geographical Journal publication precedes the author's ON ALEXANDER'S TRACK TO THE INDUS by 2 years. As Stein states herein: My recent tour of archeological and geographical across the Indian Northwest Frontier lead me through a fascinating region, hitherto inaccessible for the most part, upon which my eyes had been fixed for fully thirty years. The hill tracts stretching northward beyond the Peshawar border owe their special antiquarian and historical interest to two facts. The fertile valleys drained by the Swat river, together with the tribal territory of Buner south-eastward, had long ago been recognized as corresponding to the ancient Udyana, a country famous in Buddhist tradition. The early worship and culture which once flourished there were known to have left their traces behind in numerous as yet unsurveyed ruins. But what invests this whole region with an additional historical interest, and one likely to appeal to a wider public, anyhow in the West, is the fact that it must have been the scene of important events in that arduous campaign which brought Alexander the Great from the foot of the snowy Hindukush to the Indus and preceded his triumphant invasion of the Punjab. The present account of the explorations carried out by me on this ground from March to May 1926 will be restricted in the main to what indications I succeeded in tracing the Macedonian conqueror's passage. N° de ref. del artículo 009701

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