Author

Publication

1996 - Oxford University Press, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

91,500 words, Guess

Page Count

366 pages

Identifiers

and 3 more
  • Library of Congress Control Number95044947
  • Goodreads843949
  • LibraryThing692239

Classifications

  • DDC915.6104/15
  • LCCDR427 .B87 1996

Description

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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  • On horseback through Asia MinorOxford University Press1996-01-01
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