Author: Burnaby, Captain Fred
Title: On Horseback Through Asia Minor; Complete 2 Volume Set
Description: London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, 1877. 3rd edition. Hardcover. pp. 352, 399. Royal 8vo. Bound in original decorated cloth binding. With oval photographic portrait of the author mounted as frontispiece to volume I. Three coloured folding maps. 24 page publisher's catalogue at end of volume I. Period advertising on rear endpapers of both volumes. Boards show bumping, edge-wear, scuffing & soiling. Contents clean. Bindings a bit stressed, as from the books being opened and pressed flat, but hinges and joints tight, and nothing loose. Name stamp on front free endpapers very good condition. Frederick Gustavus Burnaby's account of a five months' horseback ride through Asia Minor, during which he traversed a district extending over 2,000 miles. His observations 'of remarks which were made by the Mohammedans about the Christians and by the Armenians about the Turks and Russians..' are both interesting and apropos. Burnaby (1842-1885) was a cavalry officer and inveterate traveller, who was educated at Harrow and in Germany. He became an accomplished linguist and travelled to Central and South America, Spain and Morocco, South Russia, the Sudan and, in 1875, travelled on horseback from Kazala to Khiva. The following year he rode from Scutari into Armenia and thence to Batoum. In 1880, he attached himself to the British Egyptian Expedition, and in 1884 he was killed in action attempting to relieve Khartoum (DNB; also see Nerhood, 'To Russia and Return', #322). Ill.: Photo portrait and maps.

Keywords: Russia; Turkey; Armenia; Armenian; Circassian; Muslim; Photo portrait and maps


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