Books by Frederick Burnaby

Captain Frederick Burnaby's secret unofficial mission was to discover if the caravan city of Khiva, closed to all European travellers by the Russians, was about to be used as a springboard for an invasion of India. This is his tale.

In the 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 his servant Radford, he spent 5 months riding across some of the cruellest winter landscape in the world before hastening home to write this work.