num_pages: 376
description: Originally published in 1877, Burnaby's On Horseback Through Asia Minor tells of the author's quest to answer a single "Were the Turks," as he put it, "such awful scoundrels?" The question was in response to lurid newspaper accounts of atrocities committed against Bulgarian Christians in 1876. A resolute Victorian explorer, Burnaby chronicled his inquiries into the tensions between Christians and Muslims, and Armenians, Kurds and Turks, and speculated on what British troops might have to deal with if England were drawn into a war on Turkish territory. Through amusing character studies of his two servants, Burnaby enhanced his descriptions of Turkish society and customs and turned this book into an enduring piece of travel literature.
language: English
title: On Horseback Through Asia Minor
titlecomplete: On Horseback Through Asia Minor
characters: Fred Burnaby
genres: Adventure, Memoir, Nonfiction, Travel, History
ratings_count: 83
publisher: Long Riders Guild Pr