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The Great Game: On Secret Service in High Asia (Not a Series) - Hardcover

Hopkirk, Peter

 
9780719547270: The Great Game: On Secret Service in High Asia (Not a Series)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 071954727X ISBN 13: 9780719547270
Verlag: John Murray Publishers Ltd, 1999

Inhaltsangabe

This is an account of the encounter last century between the British in India and Tsarist Russia in Central Asia which became known as the Great Game. When the encounter began the frontiers of Russia and British India lay some 2000 apart. By the end, the gap had shrunk in places to 20 miles. As Russia pushed forward her frontiers young officers found the fulfilment of their dreams in the chance to escape garrison life and find promotion and glory in the Caucasus, China and Tibet.;Peter Hopkirk has also written Foreign Devils on the Silk Road, Trespassers on the Roof of the World and Setting the East Ablaze.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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 and QUEST FOR KIM.

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Verlag
John Murray Publishers Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
1999
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
071954727X
ISBN 13 
9780719547270
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
256
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