Journey to Khiva

by PhilipGlazebrook (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  1993

  $4.26

  This is a book of travels among the remote cities and deserts of Russian Central Asia - Bokhara and Samarkand as well as Khiva and the River Oxus - where in the last century British and Russian imperialism clashed in the Great Game to win control of the approaches to northern India. Ruled by medieval tyrants, this lawless arena attracted the knights errant of Victorian Britain and Russia (and one notable American) into a lethal tournament of shadows. As he set out into the Soviet Union when it was on the point of disintegration, Philip Glazebrook found that modern Russia has its extreme dangers too. This book was shortlisted for the 1992 Thomas Cook Travel Book Award. The author also wrote Journey to Kars , Captain Vinegar's Commission and The Gate at the End of the World .

• Used

  Hardcover
  1992

  $3.31

  When Philip Glazebrook boarded the Moscow train at the Hook of Holland in May 1990 he was beginning a journey he had been waiting a life-time to make. His desire was to see the cities of Samarcand, Bokhara and Khiva, where some of the most dramatic innings of the Great Game - the war from 1830 to 1900 between Russia and England over control of the approaches to India - were played out. But to reach it he had to travel through the disintegrating Soviet Union, with its shortages, queues, muggers and ever-obstructive bureaucracy. Travelling in the company of the ghostly heroes and authors of earlier accounts, this book attempts to create an original travel book. Philip Glazebrook is the author of The Gate at the End of the World and Journey to Kars .