Miller....books are treasures the younger generation doesn't appreciate. I have 100 volumes of 15th-19th century travelogues and histories of Central Asia...Tehran, Samarkand, Bukhara, Herat, Kabul, the Indus, Sistan; I've been told to get rid of them...the internet has it all. Sorry...Not sorry.... there's still something about holding paper. Are we dinosaurs?
Speaking of books, I got my hands on General Journee's "Tir des Fusils de Chasse" quite some time ago. (I think he's more or less the French Burrard.) I gave some thought to trying my hand at translating it, but it'd likely be a labor of love because I doubt there'd be all that much interest. And it's also extremely technical, making it a stretch for my knowledge of French.
Re your other interest, have you read "The Great Game" by Peter Hopkirk? A good summary of British and Russian imperialism in that part of the world.
