A Carpet Ride to Khiva: Seven Years on the Silk Road (32 page)

Further Reading

Colonel Bailey,
Mission to Tashkent
(1946)

Frederick Burnaby,
A Ride to Khiva
(1876)

Ella Christie,
Through Khiva to Golden Samarkand
(1925)

Victoria Finlay,
Colour
(2002)

Peter Hopkirk,
The Great Game
(1990)

R. Jefferson,
A New Ride to Khiva
(1899)

Gustav Krist,
Alone Through a Forbidden Land
(1938)

Chris Kremmer,
The Carpet Wars
(2002)

T. Lentz,
Timur and the Princely Vision
(1989)

Lady Macartney,
An English Lady in Chinese Turkestan
(1931)

J.A. MacGahan,
Campaigning on the Oxus, and the Fall of Khiva
(1874)

Ella Maillart,
Turkestan Solo
(1933)

Ethel Mannin,
South to Samarkand
(1936)

N. Muraviev,
Journey to Khiva
(1871)

Paul Nazaroff,
Hunted Through Central Asia
(1932)

Orhan Pamuk,
My Name is Red
(2001)

Arminius Vambery,
Travels in Central Asia
(1863)

Monica Whitlock,
Beyond the Oxus
(2002)

Acknowledgements

Firstly I’d like to thank my parents, who kindly allowed me a year of rent-free living in order to write this book. Special thanks to Pat Alexander, whose editing skills helped me enormously at the start, and to Rachel McKinley for your diligent proof-reading. Thanks also to Jane Hepburn, Tim and Sheila Stevenson, Will Beharrel, Lis and James Woods, Iain Pickett,
Lauren McGill and David Lewis for your helpful comments.

Tatiana Wilde, thank you for your constructive criticism and helping the book take shape. Simon Flynn, Duncan Heath and all at Icon, thanks for taking a chance with a first-time author; your professionalism, your polishing of the manuscript and your commitment to seeing the book do well, have been a huge encouragement.

Finally,
thanks to Endre Medhaug for your unfailing, prophetic optimism that this book would ever come to be!