A Ride to Khiva (The Century Travellers series) - Softcover

Fred Burnaby

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0712600949 ISBN 13: 9780712600941

Publisher: Century Publishing, 1983

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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.

About the Author:

About the Authors:
Author of On Horseback Through Asia Minor, and founder of the Vanity Fair journal, Frederick Burnaby did a great deal of active service in the British army and was killed in action in 1885. Peter Hopkirk is a highly acclaimed travel writer and best-selling author of The Great Game.

About this edition

• Publisher: Century Publishing
• Publication date: 1983
• ISBN 10: 0712600949
• ISBN 13: 9780712600941
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 429