Editing Amu Darya (section)

==Literature==
{{Blockquote|The clashing noise of battle reached the sky <br>
The blood of the [[Bengalis|Bengalees]] flowed like the river '''Jaihun'''.<br>
~ Mirza Nathan describing a battle between the [[Mughal Empire|Mughal]]s and [[Musa Khan of Bengal]] (translated by M. I. Borah)|title=''[[Baharistan-i-Ghaibi]]''|source=<ref name=borah>{{cite book|title=Baharistan-I-Ghaybi – Volume II|author=Nathan, Mirza|editor=M. I. Borah|year=1936|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.84864/page/n95/mode/2up|publisher=[[Government of Assam]]|location=[[Gauhati]], [[Assam]], [[British Raj]]|page=58}}</ref>}}

The Oxus river, and Arnold's poem, fire the imaginations of the children who adventure with ponies over the moors of the West Country in the 1930s children's book ''[[The Far-Distant Oxus]]''. There were two sequels, ''Escape to Persia'' and ''Oxus in Summer''.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Oxus Series by Katharine Hull|url=https://www.goodreads.com/series/125384|access-date=2021-06-07|website=www.goodreads.com}}</ref>

[[Robert Byron (travel writer)|Robert Byron]]'s 1937 travelogue, ''[[The Road to Oxiana]]'', describes its author's journey from the [[Levant]] through [[Persia]] to [[Afghanistan]], with the Oxus as his stated goal, "to see certain famous monuments, chiefly the [[Gonbad-e Qabus (tower)|Gonbad-e Qabus]], a tower built as a mausoleum for an ancient king."<ref>{{Cite web|title=The Road to Oxiana. By Robert Byron|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/entertainment/books/1982/07/11/the-road-to-oxiana-by-robert-byron-oxford-university-press-292-pp-paperback-795/3851b1bf-cbe3-4c6e-b654-c95ae7973b72/|access-date=2023-05-12|website=washingtonpost.com}}</ref>

[[George MacDonald Fraser]]'s ''[[Flashman at the Charge]]'' (1973), places Flashman on the Amu Darya and the Aral Sea during the (fictitious) Russian advance on India during [[The Great Game]] period.{{Citation needed|date=March 2021}}

{{Blockquote|But the majestic River floated on,<br>
Out of the mist and hum of that low land, <br>
Into the frosty starlight, and there moved, <br>
Rejoicing, through the hushed [[Khwarazm|Chorasmian]] waste,<br>
Under the solitary moon: — he flowed <br>
Right for the polar star, past Orgunjè,<br>
Brimming, and bright, and large: then sands begin <br>
To hem his watery march, and dam his streams, <br>
And split his currents; that for many a league <br>
The shorn and parcelled Oxus strains along <br>
Through beds of sand and matted rushy isles — <br>
Oxus, forgetting the bright speed he had <br>
In his high mountain-cradle in [[Pamir Mountains|Pamere]], <br>
A foiled circuitous wanderer: — till at last <br>
The longed-for dash of waves is heard, and wide <br>
His luminous home of waters opens, bright <br>
And tranquil, from whose floor the new-bathed stars <br>
Emerge, and shine upon the [[Aral Sea]].<br>
~ [[Matthew Arnold]], ''[[Sohrab and Rustum]]''|author=|title=|source=}}

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