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  • This expedition was as much the expedition of a discoverer as the journey of a conqueror: and, at the mouth of the Indus, he sent his ships to survey the coasts of the Indian Ocean and Persian Gulf, while he himself marched along the shore of the province, then called Gedrosia, and now

    A Book of Golden Deeds Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

  • Gedrosia, straddling the border of modern Iran and Pakistan, was the poorest and least hospitable of all the provinces of the Persian Empire.

    Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

  • Perhaps half his soldiers had perished in the sands of Gedrosia and almost all the civilians had been lost.

    Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

  • His trek through Hyrcania, Parthia, Bactria, Sogdiana, India, Gedrosia, and Carmania had covered thousands of miles over blistering deserts, towering mountains, and steaming jungles.

    Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

  • If he could bring his army back from India through the wastelands of Gedrosia, it would be a story of glory that would live forever.

    Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

  • The few natives who lived in Gedrosia clustered along the seashore and lived a life as primitive as anything the Macedonians had ever seen.

    Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

  • His trek through Hyrcania, Parthia, Bactria, Sogdiana, India, Gedrosia, and Carmania had covered thousands of miles over blistering deserts, towering mountains, and steaming jungles.

    Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

  • Gedrosia: Inhospitable desert region in southeastern Iran through which Alexander marched his army on the return from India to Babylon.

    Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

  • After traveling almost five hundred miles along the shore of the Indian Ocean, the fleet finally passed the barren land of Gedrosia and was now entering the Straits of Hormuz opposite the Arabian peninsula.

    Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

  • The shore became more mountainous as the fleet moved west up the coast of Gedrosia while the land grew ever more arid.

    Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

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