Memoirs of Alexander Gardner

Soldier and Traveller.

[GARDNER, Alexander] / PEARSE, Hugh (ed.)

[GARDNER, Alexander] Memoirs of Alexander Gardner Soldier and Traveller.

Blackwood, 1898.

First edition. Original brick-red cloth lettered in gilt on the spine and in black on the upper cover. Frontispiece photogravure portrait of Gardner bedecked in a tartan salvar kameez with matching turban. One other plate and two maps. A very good copy with evidence of a label being removed from the front board and a small bump to the head of the rear board. Front hinge repaired.

Alexander Gardner (1785-1877), was an American adventurer and mercenary of Scottish extraction. He travelled throughout Afghanistan, joining the rebel Habibullah, and then to the Punjab commanding units of Ranjit Singh's artillery forces. He recorded his adventures in contemporary diaries recounting them, apparently with embellishments, as an elderly man to Major Hugh Pearse. They have since gone down in literary folklore. Gardner is one of the historical characters who plays a part in G.M. Fraser's Flashman books.

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