On Horseback Through Asia Minor, Volume 1 (of 2)

The author recounts a winter horseback journey across Anatolia undertaken over about five months and roughly 2,000 miles, combining travelogue, landscape sketches, and encounters with Turks, Armenians, Greeks, Turkomans, Circassians, Kurds, and Persians. He describes towns, customs, hospitality, and local opinions about the Conference and the looming Russo-Turkish conflict, offering candid assessments of Ottoman strength. The narrative includes military route descriptions, appendices with reports and a document from Circassian chiefs, and frequent conversational vignettes that illuminate daily life and political tensions.