A person from England, and other travellers

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Summary: Travellers to Central Asia and Afghanistan
Review: Although I read this book almost twenty years ago, I still remember how interesting it was. It tells the stories of various Britons who made their way to Central Asia and Afghanistan over the last few centuries. I don't exactly remember the first set of travellers, but I think they were British soldiers who came up from India in the 1880s or 1890s. I am just reading Winston Churchill's book "My Early Years" and he participated, as a young cavalry officer, in one of the British army's forays into Afghanistan. Both of these books are very good reading as background for what is going on in that part of the world today. It appears that some things have not changed much.
I would first read Sir Fitzroy Maclean's book "Eastern Approches" where he writes about his own travels to Central Asia in the 1930s when he was stationed at the British Embassy in Moscow. These books are classics for anyone interested in this part of the world.