The Great Game
$25.74
- Paperback
608 pages
- Release Date
26 October 2026
Summary
WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY GILES MILTON
‘Peter Hopkirk is truly the Laureate of the Great Game’ Jan Morris
‘One of the paciest and most exciting works of narrative history I have ever read’ William Dalrymple
‘There can be few more fascinating subjects, or few authors better qualified to write about it’ *Independent*
For nearly a century the two most powerful nations on earth, Victorian Britain and Tsarist Russia, f…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781399836845 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1399836846 |
| Author: | Peter Hopkirk |
| Publisher: | John Murray Press |
| Imprint: | John Murray Publishers Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 608 |
| Release Date: | 26 October 2026 |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm |
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About The Author
Peter Hopkirk
Peter Hopkirk travelled widely in the regions where his six books are set: Central Asia, the Caucasus, China, Russia, India and Pakistan, Iran, and Eastern Turkey.
He 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 was twice held in secret police cells and has was also hijacked by Arab terrorists. His works have been translated into many languages.
All six of his books are available from John Murray:
- THE GREAT GAME
- ON SECRET SERVICE EAST OF CONSTANTINOPLE
- SETTING THE EAST ABLAZE
- TRESPASSERS ON THE ROOF OF THE WORLD
- FOREIGN DEVILS ON THE SILK ROAD
- QUEST FOR KIM
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