The Ride to Khiva is a travel memoir written by Francis Cowley Burnand, an English satirist and playwright, in 1877. The book documents Burnand's journey to Khiva, a city located in present-day Uzbekistan, during the Russian conquest of Central Asia in the late 19th century. The book is divided into two parts. The first part describes Burnand's journey from London to Russia, where he joins a British diplomatic mission to Khiva. Burnand provides vivid...