- Biography, British Personal narratives, Description and travel, History
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and cool.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- cooloverwhelming
- rawmeticulous
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About the book
- Author
- F. M. Bailey
- First published
- 1946
- Pages
- 312
- Publisher
- Trubner & Co, Travel Book Club, J. Cape
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781844530670
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First sentence
“'AN absolutely first-class man,' noted the Viceroy of India on the personal file of Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Bailey, the author of this remarkable narrative, before sending him through the passes into Bolshevik Central Asia on the hazardous mission which it describes.”
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