Table of Contents

Peter Hopkirk: Introduction
Malcolm Burr: Preface
1: Awaiting Execution
2: Release
3: Days of Wrath
4: Hiding among the Sarts
5: Persecution and alarms
6: Home life among the Sarts and Kirghiz
7: Hiding among the Kirghiz
8: Alone with nature
9: The white lady
10: The road to Semirechie
11: Pishpek
12: In Semirechie
13: Hiding in the hills
14: Danger again
15: Back on the trail
16: Safety in sight
17: Desolation
18: Despair
19: One last effort
20: At last!
Peter Hopkirk: Epilogue
Index

About the Author

Paul Nazaroff was educated in Moscow and St Petersburg. His career as a geoloist, minerologist, and mining engineer was interrupted by the Bolshevick Revolution, which prompted him to become a counter-revolutionary agent. A man of wide sympathies and encyclopaedic knowledge, he was also highly skilled in the fields of ornithology, archaeology, ballistics, and botany, and was an accomplished linguist, huntsman, and taxidermist.