12mo. German text, Volume I: xii, 210 pp., [1], frontispiece portrait, 5 wood engravings / Volume II: vii, 222 pp., 6 wood engravings, 1 folding map at rear, foxing throughout, translated from English by Johann Sporschil, Hartlebens, Leipzig, 1836.

Synopsis

The significance of Fraser’s journey to Khorasan is to be found in its effect upon British policy and strategy in the Middle East. Fraser, like Burnes and Conolly, should be remembered not only as a traveller but also for his contribution to the Great Game in Asia. (Edward Ingram).
In 1829 the Great Game in Asia began when the Persians were defeated by the Russians and had to sign a treaty that threatened Persian independence. For those interested in this explosive area this book by Fraser and his “Travels and Adventures in the Persian Provinces of the Southern Banks of the Caspian Sea” were the most recent descriptions of Persia and were read avidly by Lord Ellenborough, President of the Board of Control for India and a man eager to stop Russian expansion that would endanger the Indian Empire.