From the rear cover
In the savage winter of 1876, Captain Frederick Burnaby rode 1,000 miles eastwards from Constantinople to see for himself what the Russians were up to in this remote corner of the Great Game battlefield. With war between Turkey and Russia imminent, he wanted to discover, among other things, whether the Sultan's armies were capable of resisting a determined Tsarist thrust towards Constantinople. Frederick Gustav Burnaby was no ordinary officer. For a start he was reputed to be the strongest man in the British Army. Nor was he all brawn, being fluent in seven languages and possessing a vigorous and colourful prose style - as readers of this Great Game classic will discover. With his redoubtable manservant Radford, he spent five months riding across some of the cruellest winter landscape in the world before hastening home to write this best-seller.
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- Title On Horseback Through Asia Minor
- Author Frederick Burnaby
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 440
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Cosimo Classics
- Date 2007-04-15
- ISBN 9781602063419 / 1602063419
- Weight 1.22 lbs (0.55 kg)
- Dimensions 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.98 in (21.59 x 13.97 x 2.49 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Asian - General
- Cultural Region: British
- Cultural Region: Middle Eastern
- Cultural Region: Russian
- Cultural Region: Turkey
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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