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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