Sir Alexander Burnes(1805 - 1841) was a British adventurer spy and employee of the East India Company. Burnes kept a lively detailed record of his trail-blazing journey across Afghanistan Uzbekistan the Indian sub-continent and beyond which he later published in three volumes to great acclaim entitled 'Travels into Bokhara - A Voyage up the Indus to Lahore and a Journey to Cabool Tartary & Persia.'