The author picks up the story at the dawn of the 1800's, after having briefly sketched in such background details as Peter the Great's purported deathbed instructions to expand the tsarist empire, and Napoleon's Egyptian campaign-both of which the English saw as threats to their hegemony in the Indian subcontinent. Tracing the British and Russian rivalry for control of the deserts and mountain ranges that stretch from the Black Sea to the China Sea, Hopkirk, fomer Asian affairs specialist for the London Times, packs his narrative with enough death, double-dealing, and derring-do to keep a TV miniseries surging along for months.
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By the end, the gap had shrunk in places to 20 miles When the encounter began the frontiers of Russia and British India lay some 2000 apart. Xiv, 562 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : 25 cmĪn account of the encounter last century between the British in India and Tsarist Russia in Central Asia which became known as the "Great Game". We encourage you to visit them, and subscribe to their list for updates on new books as they are uploaded. This book was copied from the amazing and wonderful PAHAR: Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset, a labor of love by two dedicated and talented historians.
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