An Officer of the Crown: Reminiscences of an English Ensign's Journey to the East in 1836: The Middlecombe Expedition to the Aral Sea in Turcomania ... Journey to the East in 1836: Volume 1 - Brossura

Rutledge, Wayne S

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0996998004 ISBN 13: 9780996998000

Casa editrice: Perrioe Publishing, 2015

Riassunto

David Alexander Driscol is the son of a retired regimental sergeant major of Anglo-Irish and Danish descent and presently an Ensign in the 52nd (Oxfordshire) Light Infantry.  He volunteers for secondment to the Indian Army for four years. It is his wish to become an explorer and not a light infantryman like his father.  He meets with a Persian professor to heighten his knowledge of this language.  While learning from the Professor, he meets with Lieutenant Donald Perkins, a Madras sapper detached to the East India Company Great Trigonometrical Survey.  Lieutenant Perkins is forming an expedition to explore Independent Tartary (modern Central Asia) and Driscol is the first man recruited for the ‘stroll’.  Driscol then journeys to his family in Eccles, Lancashire, before continuing to London to gain his passage east.  In his journey south to London, he meets Marquerite with whom he begins a correspondence.  Driscol equips himself in the Capitol for travel to the Orient while experiencing several low and high adventures in the city.

Ensign Driscol takes a steamship to Gibraltar and arrives after several undertakings, meeting another young lady named Millicent and her two sisters, and several other people of note.  He is separated from Millicent and to continue his voyage, takes a native boat to Ceuta then Malta, fighting off a piratical attack near Algiers. This is where Driscol has his first action and is much dismayed by the loss of friends and killing a man. Driscol and Perkins appear to conduct, and the record is unclear here, an outrageous prank on the Royal Navy and Ensign Driscol then makes his way to Alexandria on a French sailing ship.  Heading south from Alexandria they go by canal boat to Cairo where Perkins takes up with a local courtesan. The gentlemen also assist a Maltese friend in investigating the selling of Jews in the slave market of Cairo and visit the Pyramids at Giza.  The two then travel to Suez where they become passengers on His Majesty’s Indian Navy Steam Sloop Atalanta.  They recruit the third member of their expedition, Ensign Alexander Anton Horne of the Bombay Artillery.

The first volume of four to chronicle his movement to India and participation in a British Expedition into Central Asia known then as Independent Tartary.

 

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Hello reader Thank you for reading this book. I would enjoy hearing from you about your experience in Driscol’s world. I grew up in Hawaii, I now write books, and design games. My various career experiences have been working in Archaeology, Libraries, Artillery, Logistics, and Human Resources. I taught as a college instructor in IT, business, leadership, and military subjects. I graduated from the University of Hawaii (BA in Anthropology and MLS in Library Science), Long Island University (MBA), and the Command and General Staff College. I have worked in Europe and the Middle East for over twenty years. I have travelled extensively, some of my favorite places are Nepal, Rapa Nui, Switzerland, France, Egypt, India, Oman, and Eccles, in the United Kingdom. There are too many other exotic and exciting places I have visited to include. Oklahoma and Kansas however do not make the list. My hobbies are reading 19th century books, fishing, traveling, 1950’s cult movies, exploring all history and archaeology (ancient to modern). I am fortunate to be married to my beloved Anne and I am the full time personal servant to a cantankerous Arab cat with definite ideas of what is proper and not proper to eat. Please contact me at: anofficerofthecrown@gmail.com A picture of myself in the middle with my editors, bullyboys and assorted soft thinking lackeys, underlings and slob-jobbers. I had to use this image as the cat just ignored me (as is her wont). Image in book

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• Editore: Perrioe Publishing
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0996998004
• ISBN 13: 9780996998000
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 354
• Redattore: Koskey Clayton, Atlas Zoe Rachel, O'Driscoll Anne, Joesting Edward