| LC control no. | n 50032701 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Burnes, Alexander, Sir, 1805-1841 |
| Variant(s) | Bernsʺ, Aleksandrʺ, 1805-1841 Bornsʺ, Aleksandrʺ, 1805-1841 Burnes, Bokhara, 1805-1841 Борнсъ, Александръ, 1805-1841 |
| Associated country | Afghanistan |
| Associated place | Indus River |
| Located | Great Britain |
| Birth date | 1805-05-16 |
| Death date | 1841-11-02 |
| Place of birth | Montrose (Scotland) |
| Place of death | Kabul (Afghanistan) |
| Field of activity | Discoveries in geography International trade Trade routes |
| Affiliation | Royal Society (Great Britain) East India Company |
| Profession or occupation | Explorers Soldiers Diplomats |
| Special note | Non-Latin script reference not evaluated. |
| Found in | Cabool, a personal narrative of a journey to, and residence in that city in the years 1836, 7 and 8, 1843: t.p. (Sir Alexander Burnes) Wikipedia, May 11, 2010 (Captain Sir Alexander Burnes; b. May 16, 1805; d. Nov. 2, 1841; Scottish traveller and explorer, agent for the British East India Company; Fellow of the Royal Society) Puteshestvie v Bukharu, 1848-1849: (Aleksandrʺ Bornsʺ: Alexander Burnes, a lieutenant in the British East India Company, in 1831-1833 completed a journey from the Indus to Lahore, reaching Kabul and Bokhara, to investigate the state of Central Asian trade with Britain and Russia and markets for British and Russian goods) Travels into Bokhara together with a narrative of A voyage on the Indus, 1973: introduction by James Lunt, pages v and xvii (Burnes was killed in his home in Kabul by rebels, 2 November 1841) Rostʺ Rossīi vʺ Azīi, 1900: page 28 (anglichanʺ kapitanʺ Bernsʺ) |
| Associated language | eng |
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