On Horseback Through Asia Minor [Lingua Inglese] - Brossura

Burnaby, Frederick

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0192825003 ISBN 13: 9780192825001

Casa editrice: Oxford University Press, U.S.A., 1996

Riassunto

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.

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L'autore:

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.

Contenuti:

• IntroductionPeter Hopkirk: Introduction
• Chapter 1Smyrna;The Pasha's Seraglio
• Chapter 2Custom-house officials; Sultan Abdul Aziz; Constantinople; An Armenian Priest
• Chapter 3hadem Kui; The Defence of Constantinople;The Song about the Turcos
• Chapter 4Horse buying; Preparations for the journey; The boat for Scutari; Scutari
• Chapter 5The Hammall; The Khan at Moltape
• Chapter 6 One of our Horses Stolen; Arrival at Ismid; Visit to the Pacha of Ismid
• Chapter 7A post-horse to Sabanja; Circassian Bashi Bazouks;
• Chapter 8Yakoob Khan; Town of Mudurlu; Nalihan
• Chapter 9Scenery near Nalihan; An uncultivated district
• Chapter 10Bei Bazar; An Armenian priest:Turkish pack-saddle
• Chapter 11Suleiman Effendi; The intrigues of Russia: The New Constitution
• Chapter 12A society of thieves; Suleiman Effendi's wife;
• Chapter 13Turkish melodies; The pack-horse is lame; Turkish hospitality; The Bey's present
• Chapter 14The cooking pot; How the inhabitants build their houses
• Chapter 15Crossing the river; The famine at Angora; Sekili; Daili Village
• Chapter 16Yuzgat; The Christians at Yuzgat;
• Chapter 17Armenian customs; Dissentions amongst Armenian Christians; The old woman dances
• Chapter 18Darvish Bey; The chase; The schoolboys of Yuzgat
• Chapter 19Outskirts of the town; An Armenian church;
• Chapter 20The gypsies; The road to Sivas; The fire-the harem
• Chpter 21The Caimacan; My tea and sugar; Pacha Williams

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• Editore: Oxford University Press, U.S.A.
• Data di pubblicazione: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0192825003
• ISBN 13: 9780192825001
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 384