Through Khiva to Golden Samarkand

INTRODUCED BY CAROLINE EDEN, award-winning author of Black Sea, Red Sands and Samarkand

''Medieval pomp, splendour, and picturesqueness... a life that one can hardly even realize.''
In 1912, Ella R. Christie - a veteran Scottish traveller who had made expeditions to Kashmir, Tibet, Malaya, Borneo, China, Korea and Japan - steamed across the Caspian Sea to explore Central Asia. Her travels through th...