Shooting Leave
Spying out Central Asia in the Great Game
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
27 May 2010
Summary
Snow leopards and Cossacks can both be dangerous. But to young British officers in India in the nineteenth century there was only one thing more exciting than shooting wild game in the mountains and steppes of Central Asia, and that was spying out those uncharted lands and impeding the advance of Tsarist Russia towards the frontiers of the British Raj.
When the two activities were combined - in what was euphemistically called ‘shooting leave’ - adventures followed thick and fast.…Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781849014694 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1849014698 |
| Author: | John Ure, Sir John Ure |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Constable |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 27 May 2010 |
| Weight: | 246g |
| Dimensions: | 131mm x 200mm x 21mm |
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Anyone with red blood in his or her veins will be stirred by these stories … The perfect read.– Country Life
Extremely entertaining … deserves to be a surprise Christmas bestseller. - The Sunday Times
Gripping stuff.Anyone with red blood in his or her veins will be stirred by these stories … The perfect read. - Country LifeTimely and well-crafted. - The ScotsmanWell informed and entertaining. - Catholic HeraldAbout The Author
John Ure
Sir John Ure, former British Ambassador to Cuba, Brazil and Sweden, is the author of, among other travel and historical books, Pilgrimage, In Search of Nomads, The Cossacks and The Trail of Tamerlane. He writes regularly on travel for the Daily and Sunday Telegraph, and has served on the council of the Royal Geographical Society and as chariman of the Thomas Cook ‘Travel Book of the Year’ panel. His recreation in Who’s Who is ‘travelling uncomfortably in remote places and writing about it comfortably afterwards’
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