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The Great Game: On Secret Service in High Asia
Peter Hopkirk
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Description for The Great Game: On Secret Service in High Asia
Paperback. 'Peter Hopkirk is truly the Laureate of the Great Game' Jan Morris Num Pages: 592 pages, 8pp black and white. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1DVUA; 1FC; 3JH; HBJF; HBLL; JWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 41. Weight in Grams: 408.
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 by Kipling. 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 through the exploits of the young officers, both British and Russian, who risked their lives playing it. Disguised as holy ... Read more
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 by Kipling. 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 through the exploits of the young officers, both British and Russian, who risked their lives playing it. Disguised as holy ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
John Murray
Number of pages
592
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
Number of Pages
592
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780719564475
SKU
V9780719564475
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Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-98
About 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 ... Read more
Reviews for The Great Game: On Secret Service in High Asia
'Brilliant'
Patrick Leigh Fermor, Daily Telegraph
'There can be few more fascinating subjects, or few authors better qualified to write about it'
Fitzroy Maclean, Independent
'Immensely readable and magisterially detached. A gripping and impressive narrative of adventure and war'
Financial Times
'Hopkirk's brilliant and engrossing account remains the classic text on how to handle ... Read more
Patrick Leigh Fermor, Daily Telegraph
'There can be few more fascinating subjects, or few authors better qualified to write about it'
Fitzroy Maclean, Independent
'Immensely readable and magisterially detached. A gripping and impressive narrative of adventure and war'
Financial Times
'Hopkirk's brilliant and engrossing account remains the classic text on how to handle ... Read more