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Foreign Devils on the Silk Road: The Search for the Lost Treasures of Central Asia by Peter Hopkirk
Category: Travel
The Silk Road, which linked imperial Rome and distant China, was once the greatest thoroughfare on earth. Along it travelled precious cargoes of silk, gold and ivory, as well as revolutionary new ideas. Its oasis towns blossomed into thriving centres of Buddhist art and learning. In time it began to ...Show more
On Secret Service East of Constantinople by Peter Hopkirk
Category: History | Series: Not a Ser.
Under the banner of a Holy War, masterminded in Berlin and unleashed from Constantinople, the Germans and the Turks set out in 1914 to foment violent revolutionary uprisings against the British in India and the Russians in Central Asia. It was a new and more sinister version of the old Great Game, with ...Show more
QUEST FOR KIM PB by HOPKIRK PETER
Category: Languages and Reference | Series: The\Hungry Student Ser.
This book is for all those who love Kim, that masterpiece of Indian life in which Kipling immortalized the Great Game. Fascinated since childhood by this strange tale of an orphan boy's recruitment into the Indian secret service, Peter Hopkirk here retraces Kim's footsteps across Kipling's India to see ...Show more
Setting the East Ablaze by Peter Hopkirk
Category: Non-Fiction
'A gripping account of the terrible, confused struggle for mastery of Central Asia that followed the Russian Revolution' Evening Standard
The Great Game by Peter HOPKIRK
Category: History | Series: Not a Ser.
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 riva ...Show more
The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia by PETER HOPKIRK
Category: History | Series: Kodansha Globe S.
THE GREATGAME: THE EPIC STORY BEHIND TODAY'S HEADLINES Peter Hopkirk's spellbinding account of the great imperial struggle for supremacy in Central Asoa has been hailed as essential reading with that era's legacy playing itself out today. The Great Game between Victorian Britain and Tsarist Russia was f ...Show more
Trespassers on the Roof of the World by Peter Hopkirk
Category: History
No other land has captured man's imagination quite like Tibet. Hidden away behind the highest mountains on earth, and ruled over by a mysterious God-king, it was for centuries a land forbidden to all outsiders. In this remarkable and ultimately tragic narrative, Peter Hopkirk recounts the forcible openi ...Show more
Trespassers on the Roof of the WorldThe Secret Exploration of Tibet by Peter Hopkirk
Category: Biography | Series: Kodansha Globe Ser.
For nineteenth-century adventures, Tibet was the prize destination, and Lhasa, its capital situated nearly three miles above sea level, was the grandest trophy of all. The lure of this mysterious land, and its strategic importance, made it inevitable that despite the Tibetans' reluctance to end their is ...Show more
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