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A Ride to Khiva

A Ride to Khiva

by Peter Hopkirk (Introduction)  •  Frederick Burnaby

  • TRAVEL NARRATIVE
  • 2002
  • PAPER
  • 390 PAGES

The real-life adventure of a Brit snooping in Russian Central Asia in 1875, with an introduction by Peter Hopkirk. A captain in the Royal Horse Guard, the author made a clandestine journal thousands of miles across desert and steppes to the city of Khiva, closed to foreigners and suspected of strategic importance to the Russians. A Great Game classic.  (CAS16, $35.00)

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