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 A Ride to Khiva, Travels and Adventures in Central Asia Peter Hopkirk (Introduction) • Frederick Burnaby TRAVEL NARRATIVE • 2002 • PAPER • 390 PAGES  E-mail this page  Printer-friendly version
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.
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