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The Ruby Sword: A Romance of Baluchistan is a novel written by Bertram Mitford in 1899. The story is set in the rugged and remote region of Baluchistan, which is located in present-day Pakistan and Iran. The protagonist of the story is a British officer named Captain George Wingate,... Read Full Overview

The Ruby Sword: A Romance of Baluchistan is a novel written by Bertram Mitford in 1899. The story is set in the province of Baluchistan, which is located in present-day Pakistan and Iran. The main character of the novel is a British officer named Captain Ronald Dacre, who is... Read Full Overview

""The Ruby Sword: A Romance of Baluchistan"" is a novel written by Bertram Mitford and published in 1899. The story is set in the rugged and remote region of Baluchistan, which is located in present-day Pakistan and Iran. The book follows the adventures of a young Englishman... Read Full Overview

"The Ruby Sword" from Bertram Mitford. Colonial writer, novelist, essayist and cultural critic (1855-1914).

Reproduction of the original: The Ruby Sword by Bertram Mitford

Reproduction of the original: The Ruby Sword by Bertram Mitford

"We love to roam, the wide world our home, As the rushing whirlwind free; O'er sea and land, and foreign strand, Who would not a wanderer be "To the far off scenes of our youthful dreams With a lightsome heart we go; On the willing hack, or the charger's back, Or the weary camel... Read Full Overview

" ...]and cavernous-their serrated ridges piled on high in a confused jumble of sharp peak and castellated formation-the home of the markhoor and mountain sheep. Here a smooth, unbroken slab of rock, sloping at the well nigh precipitous angle of a high-pitched roof-there, at... Read Full Overview