In the winter of 1875, a young British officer set out across
Central Asia on a strictly unofficial mission to investigate the
latest secret Russian moves in the Great Game. His goal was the
mysterious caravan city of Khiva, closed to all European travellers
by the Russians following their seizure of it two years earlier.
His aim was to discover whether, as many British strategists
feared, this remote and dangerous oasis was about to be used as a
springboard for an invasion of India. Unknown to his superiors, who
would have forbidden the venture, Captain Frederick Gustavus
Burnaby rode for over a thousand miles across steppe and desert,
struggling through blizzards and snowdrifts, to reach forbidden
Khiva. Ordered home by an alarmed government, Burnaby immediately
sat down and wrote this best-selling account of his adventures,
which was to become a Great Game classic, the first of two he was
to publish.
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