Daughters of Britannia
Subtitle: The Lives and Times of Diplomatic Wives
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: August 6, 2002
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780060934231
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.