Welcome to Mid-Afternoon Map, our exclusive members-only newsletter that provides a cartographic perspective on current events, geopolitics, and history from the Caucasus to the Carolinas. Subscribers can look forward to interesting takes on good maps and bad maps, beautiful maps and ugly ones — and bizarre maps whenever possible. *** Col. Frederick Gustavus Burnaby never received the fame or geographic moniker enjoyed by men such as Lawrence of Arabia or Chinese Gordon. Even in the realm of British Central Asian adventurers, his reputation is still eclipsed by that of Alexander “Bokhara” Burns. But despite this, Burnaby’s jauntily titled A Ride to Khiva
