Burnaby, Fred

FIRST EDITION, 8vo (205 x 12pmm.), 3 folding maps, one in pocket at rear, nineteenth-century red half calf gilt, slight wear to maps

Ghani p.59; Yakushi (1994) B631a

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Burnaby, a Captain in the Royal Horse Guards, was, like many players of the Great Game, a larger-than-life character; standing at six foot four and weighing fifteen stone, he was reputed to be the strongest man in the British Army.

Unusually, the Russian authorities gave Burnaby permission to travel through the Tsar's Central Asian territories during his trip. The present work is a colourful narrative of the journey; its strong Russophobe stance irritated the Foreign Office but delighted the hawkish press and reading public at large.