On Horseback Through Asia Minor [Idioma Inglés] - Softcover

Burnaby, Frederick

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0192825003 ISBN 13: 9780192825001

Verlag: Oxford University Press, U.S.A., 1996

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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.

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 servant Radford, he spent five months riding across some of the cruellest winter landscape in the world before hastening home to write this best-seller.. NOTA: El libro no está en español, sino en inglés.

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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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• Verlag: Oxford University Press, U.S.A.
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0192825003
• ISBN 13: 9780192825001
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 384