Adventures of a Kashmiri merchant in Australia : an unknown Urdu travelogue

Title: Adventures of a Kashmiri merchant in Australia : an unknown Urdu travelogue
Subject: Voyages and travels; Western Australia--History; Foreign workers, Pakistani; Perth (W.A.); Business
Category: 1. Settlement
Keywords: Commerce
Creator: Korvin, Gabor
Current holder: State Library of Western Australia
Period of reference: 1898 – 1898
Link: https://encore.slwa.wa.gov.au/iii/encore/record/C__Rb2876894
Item number: PR15719/2
Access rights: Request at location
Country of origin: Pakistan; Australia
Place: Coolgardie; Perth
Language: Urdu
Description from source: 1 p. Excerpts from a travelogue originally written in Urdu, in elegant nast'aliq script, which was found in the possession of a Pakistani family in Perth. The travelogue narrated the travels of Khwajah Mohammad Bukhsh who had moved to Perth and opened up shops. His father Aamir Bukhsh also came to Australia and died in Coolgardie in 1898.