'Journey to Khiva' is a book of travels among the remote cities and deserts of Russian Central Asia – Bokhara and Samarcand as well as Khiva and the River Oxus – where in the last century British and Russian imperialism clashed in the ...
Muravie Vs Journey to Khiva Through the Turcoman Country
Khiva to Samarkand - The Remarkable Story of a Woman's Adventurous Journey Alone Through the Deserts of Central Asia to...
This is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended.
A ride to Khiva, travels and adventures in central Asia
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original.
A Carpet Ride to Khiva sees Alexander being stripped naked at a former Soviet youth camp, crawling through silkworm droppings in an attempt to record their life-cycle, holed up in the British Museum discovering carpet designs dormant for ...
Excerpt from A Ride to Khiva: Travels and Adventures in Central Asia The title explains the nature of this work. It is merely a narrative of a ride to Khiva. I have added a short account of Russia's Advance Eastward.
This real-life adventure details the hardship and humor of Burnaby's excursion. Reprinted eleven times in its first year of publication, the story made Burnaby a popular hero in his own day.