The Bokhara Victims
The Bokhara Victims

GROVER, Captain John. The Bokhara Victims.

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GROVER, Captain John. The Bokhara Victims. London, Chapman and Hall, 1845.

8vo. 20th-century buckram with printed label to spine; pp. ix, 307; some occasional heavy foxing or spotting, inkstamp of Dundee Free Library to the title, at the end and in the middle.
First edition of one of the great rarities of Great Game literature. The Bokhara Victims were Captain Arthur Conolly and Lt. Col. Charles Stoddart, sent on a diplomatic mission to the Emir of Bokhara. Grover was president of the Committee of the Stoddart and Conolly Fund which had been established to ascertain the fate of the two British officers whom Grover was convinced had been killed by the Russians. Stoddart, and Conolly (credited for coining the term "the Great Game") had actually been murdered by the Emir Nasrullah of Bokhara. The Committee had sent Rev. Joseph Wolff to Bokhara on a fact finding mission (see Narrative of a Mission to Bokhara, which was dedicated to Grover, and which we currently stock as well). Grover was a personal friend of Stoddart and his work attempted to highlight their plight and to underline the British government's insouciance as to their fate. A second edition of the book appeared later in the same year and from its preface it seems that Grover withdrew the first edition from circulation, making the present copy one of few remaining.
Yakushi (3rd ed.) G304.

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