Author: Frederick Gustavus Burnaby
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Asia, Central
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
A ride to Khiva, travels and adventures in central Asia
Author: Frederick Gustavus Burnaby
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Asia, Central
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Asia, Central
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
A Ride To Khiva: Travels and Adventures in Central Asia
A Ride to Khiva
Author: Fred Burnaby
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780192880505
Category : Khiva (Uzbekistan)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A Ride to Khiva recounts Captain Burnaby's strictly unofficial mission in 1875 to investigate the motives behind Russia's exclusion of foreigners from Central Asia. Forced to travel in winter, he journeyed through blizzards and snowdrifts to reach the mysterious caravan city of Khiva, hisadventures extending from surviving the Cossack's treatment for frostbite to taking tea with the Khan. Burnaby's account of his `one-man Great Game mission' was hugely successful, reprinting eleven times in its first year of publication, and A Ride to Khiva continues to make gripping reading today.Now reissued with a new introduction by the highly acclaimed author, Peter Hopkirk.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780192880505
Category : Khiva (Uzbekistan)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A Ride to Khiva recounts Captain Burnaby's strictly unofficial mission in 1875 to investigate the motives behind Russia's exclusion of foreigners from Central Asia. Forced to travel in winter, he journeyed through blizzards and snowdrifts to reach the mysterious caravan city of Khiva, hisadventures extending from surviving the Cossack's treatment for frostbite to taking tea with the Khan. Burnaby's account of his `one-man Great Game mission' was hugely successful, reprinting eleven times in its first year of publication, and A Ride to Khiva continues to make gripping reading today.Now reissued with a new introduction by the highly acclaimed author, Peter Hopkirk.
A Ride to Khiva Travels and Adventures in Central Asia by Fred Burnaby
Author: Frederick Gustavus Burnaby
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
A Ride to Khiva: Travels and Adventures in Central Asia
Author: Frederick Burnaby
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1365876918
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
It is 1875, the time of the 'Great Game', when the British and Russian Empires are vying for power in central Asia. Great Britain learns of Russia's plans to annex India, the 'jewel in the crown' of the Empire. A British officer rides for Khiva, a Russian city closed to European travelers. He is on a dangerous mission, to learn if this remote and dangerous oasis is about to be used as a springboard for the Russian invasion of India. Captain Frederick Burnaby ballooned across the English Channel, traveled in Spain and Russia, and was wounded, and eventually killed, fighting for Britain's empire. This account of his perilous journey to Khiva, published in 1876 and immediately reprinted, brought him instant fame.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1365876918
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
It is 1875, the time of the 'Great Game', when the British and Russian Empires are vying for power in central Asia. Great Britain learns of Russia's plans to annex India, the 'jewel in the crown' of the Empire. A British officer rides for Khiva, a Russian city closed to European travelers. He is on a dangerous mission, to learn if this remote and dangerous oasis is about to be used as a springboard for the Russian invasion of India. Captain Frederick Burnaby ballooned across the English Channel, traveled in Spain and Russia, and was wounded, and eventually killed, fighting for Britain's empire. This account of his perilous journey to Khiva, published in 1876 and immediately reprinted, brought him instant fame.
A Ride to Khiva
Author: Fred Burnaby
Publisher: London ; Paris : C. Petter & Galpin
ISBN:
Category : Asia, Central
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Publisher: London ; Paris : C. Petter & Galpin
ISBN:
Category : Asia, Central
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
A Ride to Khiva, Travels and Adventures in Central Asia, by Fred Burnaby,... With... an Appendix, Containing, Amongst Other Information, a Series of Marchroutes, Translated from Several Russian Works
Author: Frederick Gustavus Burnaby
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 487
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 487
Book Description
A Ride to Khiva: Travels and Adventures in Central Asia, by Fred Burnably ...
A Ride to Khiva
Author: Fred Burnaby
Publisher: Eland Publishing
ISBN: 9781780601120
Category : Asia, Central
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A memoir of the author's 1875 trek across Central Asia to the newly conquered Uzbek city of Khiva, then closed to all European travellers, and which the British author feared would be used by the Russians to invade India.
Publisher: Eland Publishing
ISBN: 9781780601120
Category : Asia, Central
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A memoir of the author's 1875 trek across Central Asia to the newly conquered Uzbek city of Khiva, then closed to all European travellers, and which the British author feared would be used by the Russians to invade India.
A Ride to Khiva
Author: Fred Burnaby
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Asia, Central
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Asia, Central
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description