George Ochoa
Bio: Though little remembered today, George Passman Tate was known in his day for his firsthand knowledge of the remote northwest frontier of British India, the region where modern Pakistan, Iran, and Afghanistan meet. A survey officer who began exploring the region in 1886 in connection with an official survey expedition, Tate became enamored of the land and its peoples, becoming, in the words of an associate, “a true child of the desert.” Over the course of 20 years, he charted desolate places, breakfasted with tribal chiefs, and sat at camp fires soaking up local legends — experiences described in his travel memoir The Frontiers of Baluchistan: Travels on the Borders of Persia and Afghanistan (1909). He also researched Afghan history, then little known in Britain, a study that resulted in The Kingdom of Afghanistan.
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