Download or read book A ride to Khiva travels and adventures in central Asia written by Frederick Gustavus Burnaby and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Ride To Khiva Travels and Adventures in Central Asia written by Fred Burnaby and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Ride to Khiva written by Fred Burnaby and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book A Ride to Khiva Travels and Adventures in Central Asia by Fred Burnaby written by Frederick Gustavus Burnaby and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Ride to Khiva Travels and Adventures in Central Asia written by Frederick Burnaby and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-04-06 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book A Ride to Khiva written by Fred Burnaby and published by London ; Paris : C. Petter & Galpin. This book was released on 1877 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 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 written by Frederick Gustavus Burnaby and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Ride to Khiva Travels and Adventures in Central Asia by Fred Burnably written by Fred Burnaby and published by . This book was released on with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Ride to Khiva written by Fred Burnaby and published by Eland Publishing. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book A Ride to Khiva written by Fred Burnaby and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book A Ride to Khiva written by Fred Burnaby and published by Nabu Press. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
Download or read book A Ride to Khiva Travels and Adventures in Central Asia written by Fred Burnaby and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ride to Khiva written by Captain Royal Horse Guards Fre Burnaby and published by . This book was released on 2015-10-15 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of this remarkable true tale of travel and adventure in Russian-ruled central Asia was larger than life in every sense. Fred Burnaby was a giant of prodigious strength (he once transported two donkeys by carrying one under either arm) who found the Victorian army too staid and stuffy for his restless spirit. He therefore interspersed his conventional military career as a cavalry officer with stints as a war correspondent, pioneer balloonist (he flew across the Channel), traveller - and spy. This was the book which brought Burnaby fame and made him a celebrity. It tells of his journey (authorised by the British Army) deep in Russian-controlled Turkmenistan to spy out the land and determine whether the Russians were planning to invade British-ruled India (a perennial fear of Britain during the grand strategic rivalry with the Russian Bear dubbed by KIpling 'the Great Game'). Both as a portrait of 'far-away peoples of whom we know nothing'; as a mid-Victorian travelogue in the grand style; and as an account of derring-do by a great adventurer, this book should be as popular now as when it was first published. Fittingly, after an action-packed life Burnaby eventually died fighting in the Sudan at the Battle of Abu Klea.
Download or read book A Ride to Khiva written by Fred Burnaby and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-19 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Ride to Khiva: Travels and Adventures in Central Asia The title explains the nature of this work. It is merely a narrative of a ride to Khiva. I have added a short account of Russia's Advance Eastward. In the course of my journey I had the opportunity of conversing with many Russians in Central Asia. India was a topic which never failed to produce numerous comments. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book A Ride to Khiva written by Frederick Gustavus Burnaby and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Travels and Adventures in Central Asia written by Fred Burnaby and published by Vanguard Publications. This book was released on 1996 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
