Description: I have here for sale a rare and fascinating book entitled A RIDE TO KHIVA: Travels and Adventures in Central Asia by Frederick Burnaby, Captain Royal Horse Guards, with maps and an Appendix. Fourth Edition published by Cassell Petter and Galpin in 1876, the same year as the first edition. Includes three colour maps:Turkestan and Adjacent Territory showing Russian boundariesImperial Border of Russia with ChinaSketch map shewing the advance of Russia in Central AsiaBurnaby's famous journey on horseback from St. Petersburg to Khiva during the winter of 1875-1876 in what is now Uzbekistan, which had just lately been closed to travellers. While the author calls this a travelogue of his journeys through Russia, he was primarily concerned with Russia's expansion through Central Asia. Khiva had been taken over by the Russian army 5 years earlier, who had since steadily continued their encroachment towards India. Burnaby devotes an appendix and much discussion in this book to the fears of the locals over the Russian invasions and the danger of war with England as the Russians came ever closer to the British-Indian border. Detailed notes are also given on routes and terrain.Red cloth boards with gilt lettering and a gilt illustration on the front board. Gilt lettering and black decoration on the spine. Minor marks on the boards and a the edge of the spine covering is frayed. There are three maps with the book - one in the rear pocket, one in the front pocket, and one is the frontispiece. xviii, 487 pages. 22 cm x 15 cm.We have over 1000 items in our Ebay shop on a wide range of subjects, so please feel free to have a browse and see if anything else takes your fancy.Postage will be by Air Mail outside of UK. If you buy more than one item then the postage cost falls for the second and further items as I will put them into one parcel - so you save money. We wrap and post the parcels on Monday and Tuesday - therefore if you pay before midday on Tuesday we will get it in the postal sacks on Tuesday night, and if it is after that time then it will go into the postal service on the following Monday.
Price: 99.99 GBP
Location: Whitegate, Cheshire
End Time: 2024-12-12T18:34:33.000Z
Shipping Cost: 38.45 GBP
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Non-Fiction Subject: Travel Guides & Travel Stories
Year Printed: 1876
Binding: Cloth
Original/Reproduction: Original
Region: Asia
Author: FREDERICK BURNABY
Original/Facsimile: Original
Language: English
Publisher: CASSELL PETTER GALPIN
Special Attributes: Illustrated
