PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY

Close Notification

Your cart does not contain any items

The Great Game

Peter Hopkirk

$26.99

Paperback

In stock
Ready to ship

QTY:

English
John Murray
11 May 2006
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 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 through the exploits of the young officers, both British and Russian, who risked their lives playing it. Disguised as holy men or native horse-traders, they mapped secret passes, gathered intelligence and sought the allegiance of powerful khans. Some never returned. The violent repercussions of the Great Game are still convulsing Central Asia today.

By:  
Imprint:   John Murray
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 196mm,  Width: 135mm,  Spine: 38mm
Weight:   418g
ISBN:   9780719564475
ISBN 10:   0719564476
Pages:   592
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

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.

Reviews for The Great Game

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 the various and often dangerous people who inhabit the region, fill of tips and warnings for the Game's current players. - BBC History Magazine Fans of political history and adventure are in for a treat as publishing house John Murray reissues its Peter Hopkirk series - Si?n Gibson, Geographical Magazine


See Also