Travels and Adventures in Central Asia : A Ride to Khiva

Fred Burnaby

ISBN 10: 8186505059 / ISBN 13: 9788186505052

Published by Bhavana Books, 2001

About this Item

Contents : Introduction. I. Information about Khiva. II. Waist-belt for gold. III. The Volga frozen. IV. Railway officials. V. Twenty degrees below zero. VI. A hole in the ice. VII. Pins-and-needles. VIII. The guardian of the forests. IX. Delayed by a snowstorm. X. Seligh sickness. XI. The ural Cossacks. XII. A supply of provisions. XIII. A sheepskin suit.XIV. A start with the courier. XV. Nomad tribes. XVI. Kashgar. XVII. Break-down of the sleigh. XVIII. An English engineer officer at Kasala. XIX. Ablutions under difficulties. XX. A priest. XXI. Water route from Kasala to petro-Alexandrovsk. XXII. Camels. XXIII. A lazy guide. XXIV. The guide's retaliation. XXV. Disobedience of orders. XXVI. The turkoman on his donkey. XXVII. Villages fortified. XXVIII. The guide's Kibitka. XXIX. The oozek. XXX. Oogentch. XXXI. The messenger. XXXII. Breakfast Khiva. XXXIII. The present khan. XXXIV. Departure from Khiva. XXXV. The meet. XXXVI. The tarantass. XXXVII. The district governor. XXXVIII. An inquisitive inspector. Appendices : 1. The Russian advance eastward. 2. Report of Mr. Schuyler. 3. Russian immortality in Central Asia. 4. Treaty of peace between Russia and Khiva. 5. The promise not to annex Khivan territory. 6. Treaty concluded between general kauffmann and Seid Muzafer, Ameer of Bokhara. 7. An Afghan prince on the importance of Merve. 8. Budget of the Turkistan government. 9. Russian operations against the Yomud Turkomans. 10. Movements of Russian troops on the Oxus. 11. Showing how easily merve might to taken by the Russians. 12. A Russians officer on 487 pp.

Seller Inventory # 38038

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Travels and Adventures in Central Asia : A Ride to Khiva
• Publisher: Bhavana Books
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 8186505059
• ISBN 13: 9788186505052
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Fine

About this title

From the Back Cover

In the winter of 1875, a young British officer set out across Central Asia on a strictly unofficial mission to investigate the latest secret Russian moves in the Great Game. His goal was the mysterious caravan city of Khiva, closed to all European travellers by the Russians following their seizure of it two years earlier. His aim was to discover whether, as many British strategists feared, this remote and dangerous oasis was about to be used as a springboard for an invasion of India. Unknown to his superiors, who would have forbidden the venture, Captain Frederick Gustavus Burnaby rode for over a thousand miles across steppe and desert, struggling through blizzards and snowdrifts, to reach forbidden Khiva. Ordered home by an alarmed government, Burnaby immediately sat down and wrote this best-selling account of his adventures, which was to become a Great Game classic, the first of two he was to publish.