A Ride Through Islam - A Journey through Persia and Afghanistan to India in 1873
by Hippisley Cunliffe Marsh
Category: True Crime

Seldom does an equestrian travel tale require its readers to exert more intellectual caution than this superbly written book. British officer Hippisley Cunliffe Marsh evaded plenty of danger in the way of Turkoman slave traders and other villains as he made his wary way from Turkey to India in 1873. With the decline of the Turkish, Persian, Afghan and Mughal kingdoms, the military might of the British Raj was in its ascendancy. With this rise in power, officers like Marsh harbored a corresponding belief in their personal superiority. The result was a long slide into religious and cultural bigotry.