Ride to Khiva

Name: Ride to Khiva
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ISBN: 9780192803672

ISBN-10: 0192803670

ISBN-13: 9780192803672

Edition: 2002

Authors: Frederick Burnaby, Peter Hopkirk

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'He who once enters Khiva abandons all hope, as surely as one who enters Hell. His prison house is girdled with trackless deserts, whose sole inhabitants are the sellers of human flesh.'In the winter of 1875, a young British officer set out across central Asia on a strictly unofficial mission to investigate the latest secret Russian moves in the Great Game. His goal was the mysterious caravan 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, as many British strategists feared, this remote and dangerous oasis was about to be used as a springboard for an invasion of India.Captain Frederick Burnaby…

Book details

List price: $35.95
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/28/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 414
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English