AN OFFICER OF THE CROWN - Tecno-Libro

David Alexander Driscol is the son of a retired regimental sergeant major of Anglo-irish and Danish descent and presently an Ensign in the 52nd (Oxfordshire) Light infantry. . He volunteers for secondment to the indian Army for four years. it is his wish to become an explorer and not a light infantryman like his father. . He meets with a Persian professor to heighten his knowledge of this language. . While learning from the Professor, he meets with Lieutenant Donald Perkins, a Madras sapper detached to the East india Company Great Trigonometrical Survey. . Lieutenant Perkins is forming an expedition to explore independent Tartary (modern Central Asia) and Driscol is the first man recruited for the stroll . . Driscol then journeys to his family in Eccles, Lancashire, before continuing to London to gain his passage east. .in his journey south to London, he meets Marquerite with whom he begins a correspondence. . Driscol equips himself in the Capitol for travel to the