A Ride to Khiva

An Adventure in Central Asia

By: Fred Burnaby

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Paperback | 5 January 2017

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320 Pages

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In the winter of 1875, a young British officer set out across central Asia on an unofficial mission to investigate the latest Russian moves in the Great Game. His goal was the mysterious Central Asian 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 this remote and dangerous oasis could be used as a springboard for an invasion of India.

An immediate bestseller when first published in 1877, Burnaby's delight in a life of risk and adventure still burns through the pages, as does his spontaneous affection for the Cossack troopers and Tartar, Khirgiz and Turkoman tribesmen that he encounters on his way.

'So idiosyncratic, so endearing, and so funny.' - Eric Newby

'A brave and strange life.' - Queen Victoria

'His adventures have become a Great Game classic.' - Peter Hopkirk

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