A Ride to Khiva

Fred Burnaby (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

413 Seiten

1997 | New edition
Oxford Paperbacks (Verlag)
978-0-19-288050-5 (ISBN)

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This text recounts Burnaby's unofficial mission in 1875 to investigate the motives behind Russia's exclusion of foreigners from Central Asia. Journeying through blizzards to reach the city of Khiva, his adventures include surviving the Cossack's treatment for frostbite to taking tea with the Khan.

"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, his adventures extending from surviving the Cossack's treatment for frostbite to taking tea with the Khan. This reissue with a new introduction by the acclaimed author, Peter Hopkirk, is intended for wide popular appeal as an "adventure story", for lovers of travel writing, and those interested in Asian history and the threat posed to British interests by Russia.

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.

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Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.12.1997
Co-Autor	Peter Hopkirk
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
	Reisen ► Reiseführer ► Asien
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
ISBN-10	0-19-288050-0 / 0192880500
ISBN-13	978-0-19-288050-5 / 9780192880505
Zustand	Neuware