- Hardcover: 240 pages
- Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd (5 July 1990)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0340525312
- ISBN-13: 978-0340525319
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 16.3 x 2.5 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 732,078 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A book on travel and exploration on the border of Russia and China in 1913 when China had just had its revolution and the Russian one was still to come, written by the soldier, linguist, spy, keen early photographer, plant collector, big game hunter and explorer Lt. Col. Charles Howard-Burry.
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Howard-Bury was typical of the soldier-explorer character in the heyday of the British Empire. Many of these men were of independent means and often took extended leave from their regular employment as soldiers or administrators in the various outposts of British power to travel in areas that caught their interest. HB's career at the time was in India when he decided to explore the Tien Shan. Even today it is a remote area of Kirghizstan; in 1913 it was much more so. The book is interesting not only from a natural history and hunting point of view but also historically. To get to the area that had engaged his curiousity HB had to travel via Russia, and he gives an interesting account of his travels in this tragic country which was soon to experience such catastrophic change in the coming years of war, revolution and Bolshevism. It is a snapshot of a more innocent time, and while not a thrilling adventure, it is absorbing.
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