This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1878 edition by Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, London.
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... combines the romance for travel, with the romance of the past, offering, in effect, two trips for the price of one. -- The New York Times Book Review, William Grimes
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Frederick Gustavus Burnaby was a soldier, traveller, writer, and pioneer balloonist. He was reputed to be the strongest man in the British Army, and spoke no fewer than seven languages. In 1875, on a one-man Great Game mission, he rode to Khiva in Central Asia, and the following year set out from Constantinople for eastern Turkey. In 1885 he was speared to death while campaigning in the Sudan, where he is buried somewhere in the desert.
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Now this is real adventure travel!,
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This review is from: On Horseback through Asia Minor (Paperback)
Who in their right mind would voluntarily undertake an expedition on horseback thru Asia
Minor in winter...Frederick Burnaby did in the year 1876, a time of intrigue in the Ottoman Empire and Russia where the forces that shaped WWI and 20th century alliances took root. This is an opportunity to travel back into time and traverse Asia Minor prior to the invention of the automobile. You will meet people from all classes and cultures; Turkish, Kurdish, Armenian, Persian and more. Burnaby tells of his trip with dry humor and with a suprisingly enlightened view of women, considering the times. This is a good read and worth the price of the book. For adventure travelers with time and money on their hands, retracing Burnaby's route on horseback would be a challenge even today.
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historical travel writing at its best,
This review is from: On Horseback through Asia Minor (Paperback)
This book is a joy for the armchair traveler. It takes you back to a place and a time, to a Turkish winter in the waning days of the Ottoman Empire. Burnaby's style is immediate, and compellingly readable. He lets you feel the mud, the cold, the mood of the times -- and the exotic east. It's great stuff. Crossing Anatolia by horseback in the winter, trying to track down rumors then circulating in Europe of anti-Armenian sentiment among the Turks, Burnaby finds the rumors to be baseless. But through every step of his wild goose chase, while we follow him through village after village, Burnaby describes in colorful detail the environment, and the people he meets. The first three-quarters of this book read like fiction, like a good, rollicking adventure story. It doesn't have a crisis near the end, like an adventure novel would, but Burnaby's story is all the better for being true.
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Great Adventure Book,
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This review is from: On Horseback through Asia Minor (Paperback)
Fred Burnaby did as much as possible, often using his intelligence over his admirable physical strength!
A GOOD READ! This guy traveled all over Russia/Middle East/Africa/Turkey with tales you will be glad you read about!
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- Eastern Questions in the Nineteenth Century: The Collected Essays of Allan Cunningham Volume 2 by Edward Ingram on page 102, and Back Matter
- Six Months in Persia: Volume 1 by Edward Stack in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia (Kodansha Globe) by Peter Hopkirk on page 377, and Back Matter
- Veiled Half-Truths: Western Travelers' Perception of Middle Eastern Women by Judy Mabro on page 130, and Back Matter
- Stories from a Small Town by Peter McNiff in Front Matter, and Back Matter
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