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 battelfield. With wars 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. With his servant Radford, he spent five months riding across some of thecruellest winter landscape in the world before hastening home to write this best-seller.
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.
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 battelfield. With wars 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. With his servant Radford, he spent five months riding across some of thecruellest winter landscape in the world before hastening home to write this best-seller.
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.
IntroductionPeter Hopkirk: Introduction
Chapter 1Smyrna;The Pasha's Seraglio
Chapter 2Custom-house officials; Sultan Abdul Aziz; Constantinople;
An Armenian Priest
Chapter 3hadem Kui; The Defence of Constantinople;The Song about
the Turcos
Chapter 4Horse buying; Preparations for the journey; The boat for
Scutari; Scutari
Chapter 5The Hammall; The Khan at Moltape
Chapter 6 One of our Horses Stolen; Arrival at Ismid; Visit to the
Pacha of Ismid
Chapter 7A post-horse to Sabanja; Circassian Bashi Bazouks;
Chapter 8Yakoob Khan; Town of Mudurlu; Nalihan
Chapter 9Scenery near Nalihan; An uncultivated district
Chapter 10Bei Bazar; An Armenian priest:Turkish pack-saddle
Chapter 11Suleiman Effendi; The intrigues of Russia: The New
Constitution
Chapter 12A society of thieves; Suleiman Effendi's wife;
Chapter 13Turkish melodies; The pack-horse is lame; Turkish
hospitality; The Bey's present
Chapter 14The cooking pot; How the inhabitants build their
houses
Chapter 15Crossing the river; The famine at Angora; Sekili; Daili
Village
Chapter 16Yuzgat; The Christians at Yuzgat;
Chapter 17Armenian customs; Dissentions amongst Armenian
Christians; The old woman dances
Chapter 18Darvish Bey; The chase; The schoolboys of Yuzgat
Chapter 19Outskirts of the town; An Armenian church;
Chapter 20The gypsies; The road to Sivas; The fire-the harem
Chpter 21The Caimacan; My tea and sugar; Pacha Williams
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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