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'Telegraph and travel. A narrative of the formation and development of telegraphic communication between England and India, under the orders of Her Majesty's Government, with incidental notices of the countries traversed by the lines.' [7] (38/782)
The record is made up of 1 volume (673 pages). It was created in 1874. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: Printed Collections.
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INTRODUCTORY. 7
wishes of her Majesty's Government that India should
be joined to Great Britain by Telegraph wires; to ad
vise on the matter, to regulate, to control, and to execute.
The first entire section of his work, the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
Cable, was a brilliant success, and has been proved a
permanent one. He scarcely lived to complete more ;
but he had put others in the way of achieving what he
had so well begun. Conscientious readers will not dis
pute his title to the place of honour in these pages.
The two parts, headed " Telegraph " and " Travel"
respectively, are designed to divide strictly official nar
rative from personal observation and record. Should
the first be found painfully practical and matter of fact,
overburdened with official details and wanting in the
zest which keeps the eye willingly open and the hand
steady to the book, the
writer
The lowest of the four classes into which East India Company civil servants were divided. A Writer’s duties originally consisted mostly of copying documents and book-keeping.
may reasonably claim
some kind of excuse in the necessarily monotonous
nature of the subject. As for the second, he must
accept personal responsibility, and trust to kindly critics
for tolerant dealing with his shortcomings. It will, at
least, possess the recommendation of treating of little-
known countries, and, in the case of the two final
chapters, going over ground untrodden, with rare ex
ceptions, by other European travellers at all.
One inevitable consequence of an institution such as
the British Telegraph in Persia, at least for those officers
called away from Indian service to assist in its rise,
progress, and maintenance, is the realization of some
thing like genuine " Overland " communication between
England and India. Those who return homeward from
Tehran have the choice of two main routes ; one by
Kussia, the other by Turkey. For those who proceed,
on the other hand, to India from the Persian capital,
I
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Telegraph and travel. A narrative of the formation and development of telegraphic communication between England and India, under the orders of Her Majesty's Government, with incidental notices of the countries traversed by the lines.
Author: Colonel Sir Frederic John Goldsmid, CB, KCSI. Late Chief Commissioner Indo-European Telegraph; British Commissioner for settlement of the Perso-Baluch Frontier (1870-71) and Arbitrator in the Perso-Afghan boundary question (1872-73).
Publication details: London. Macmillan and Co., 1874. R Clay, Sons and Taylor, printers, Bread Streat Hill.
Physical Description: xiv, [2], 673, [3]p., [8] leaves of plates (2 folded): ii, maps, portrait; 23cm (8º).
Ownership: With stamps of the India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Library and embossed stamp of the "Secretary of State for India Library". Marginal ms. annotations in a contemporary hand in ink on pages 101, 194, 196, 264 and 527.
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- 1 volume (673 pages)
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This volume contains a table of contents giving chapter headings and page references, along with a list of illustrations giving titles and page references. There is also an index which begins on page 661.
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Dimensions: 232mm x 156mm
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- V 21450
- Title
- 'Telegraph and travel. A narrative of the formation and development of telegraphic communication between England and India, under the orders of Her Majesty's Government, with incidental notices of the countries traversed by the lines.'
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:ii-v, 1:14, 14a:14b, 15:18, 1:8, 8a:8b, 9:144, 144a:144b, 145:186, 186a:186b, 187:324, 324a:324b, 325:516, 516a:516b, 517:648, 648a:648b, 649:676, 1:60, iii-r:iii-v, back-i
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- Goldsmid, Sir Frederic John
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