Daughters of Britannia
Publisher: see notes for publisher info
Published: 1999
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780002557146
First sentence: Sometime at the beginning of April 1915 a lonely Kirghiz herdsman wandering with his flocks in the bleak mountain hinterland between Russian and Chinese Turkistan would have beheld a bizarre sights a purposeful-looking Englishwoman in a solar topi, a parasol clasped firmly in one hand, striding towards the very top of the 12,000-foot Terek Dawan pass.