$27.05
- Paperback
592 pages
- Release Date
11 May 2006
Summary
For nearly a century, the two most powerful nations on earth, Victorian Britain and Tsarist Russia, fought a secret war in the lonely passes and deserts of Central Asia. Those engaged in this shadowy struggle called it The Great Game, a phrase immortalized in Kipling’s Kim.
When play first began, the two rival empires lay nearly 2,000 miles apart. By the end, some Russian outposts were within 20 miles of India.
This classic book tells the story of the Great Game throu…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780719564475 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0719564476 |
| Author: | Peter Hopkirk |
| Publisher: | John Murray Press |
| Imprint: | John Murray Publishers Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 592 |
| Release Date: | 11 May 2006 |
| Weight: | 418g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 135mm x 38mm |
| Series: | Not a |
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Critics Review
‘There can be few more fascinating subjects, or few authors better qualified to write about it’
Brilliant - Patrick Leigh Fermor, Daily Telegraph
There can be few more fascinating subjects, or few authors better qualified to write about it - Fitzroy Maclean, IndependentImmensely readable and magisterially detached. A gripping and impressive narrative of adventure and war - Financial TimesHopkirk’s brilliant and engrossing account remains the classic text on how to handle the various and often dangerous people who inhabit the region, fill of tips and warnings for the Game’s current players. - BBC History MagazineFans of political history and adventure are in for a treat as publishing house John Murray reissues its Peter Hopkirk series - Si?n Gibson, Geographical MagazineAbout The Author
Peter Hopkirk
Peter Hopkirk has travelled widely in the regions where his six books are set - Central Asia, the Caucasus, China, India and Pakistan, Iran, and Eastern Turkey. He has worked as an ITN reporter, the New York correspondent of the old Daily Express, and - for twenty years - on The Times. No stranger to misadventure, he has twice been held in secret police cells and has also been hijacked by Arab terrorists. His works have been translated into fourteen languages.
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