On Horseback Through Asia Minor

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.

List of contents

• Introduction


• Chapter 1


• Chapter 2


• Chapter 3


• Chapter 4


• Chapter 5


• Chapter 6


• Chapter 7


• Chapter 8


• Chapter 9


• Chapter 10


• Chapter 11


• Chapter 12


• Chapter 13


• Chapter 14


• Chapter 15


• Chapter 16


• Chapter 17


• Chapter 18


• Chapter 19


• Chapter 20


• Chpter 21

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: F. Burnaby, Frederick Burnaby, Burnaby Frederick, Peter Hopkirk
• Assisted by: Hopkirk Peter (Introduction)
• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.04.1996
• EAN: 9780192825001
• ISBN: 978-0-19-282500-1
• No. of pages: 384
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 21 mm
• Weight: 407 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales > Asia; FICTION / Thrillers / General, FICTION / Historical / General, FICTION / Action & Adventure, Historical adventure, HISTORY / Asia / General, Thriller / suspense fiction, Thriller / suspense, Historical adventure fiction, Asian History, Military intelligence, HISTORY / Military / Intelligence & Espionage