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The Great Game by Peter Hopkirk
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £9.78For 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... -
Quest for Kim Peter Hopkirk 9780719564529
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.26This 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... -
Foreign Devils on the Silk Road by Peter Hopkirk
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £21.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870234354Author Peter HopkirkFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint University of Massachusetts... -
Trespassers on the Roof of the World: The Race for Lhasa by Peter Hopkirk
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26No 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... -
Trespassers on the Roof of the World: The Secret Exploration of Tibet by Peter Hopkirk 9781568360508
RRP: £16.00Booksplease Price: £11.89For 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... -
The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia by Peter Hopkirk 9781568360225
RRP: £18.00Booksplease Price: £15.09THE GREATGAME: THE EPIC STORY BEHIND TODAY'S HEADLINESPeter Hopkirk's spellbinding account of the great imperial struggle for supremacy in Central Asoa has been hailed as essential reading with that... -
Setting the East Ablaze: Lenin's Dream of an Empire in Asia Peter Hopkirk 9780719564505
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.26'Let us turn our faces towards Asia', exhorted Lenin when the long-awaited revolution in Europe failed to materialize. 'The East will help us conquer the West.' Peter Hopkirk's book tells for the... -
Foreign Devils on the Silk Road: The Search for the Lost Treasures of Central Asia by Peter Hopkirk
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.26The 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... -
On Secret Service East of Constantinople: The Plot to Bring Down the British Empire Peter Hopkirk 9780719564512
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.88Under 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... -
Koh-I-Noor: The History of the World's Most Infamous Diamond by William Dalrymple
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.00'Riveting. This highly readable and entertaining book ... finally sets the record straight on the history of the Koh-i-Noor' Tarquin Hall, Sunday Times 'Dynamic, original and supremely readable'... -
The Secret History of the Mongols by Christopher P. Atwood
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23A new translation of a great historical epic, recounting the turbulent life and times of Chinggis Khan'Bear the sword andHew asunder high and haughty necksSlash apart all strong and self-willed... -
Visualizing Dunhuang: Seeing, Studying, and Conserving the Caves by Jerome Silbergeld
RRP: £62.00Booksplease Price: £51.15A beautifully illustrated study of the caves at Dunhuang, exploring how this important Buddhist site has been visualized from its creation to todaySituated at the crossroads of the northern and... -
Sabres on the Steppes: Danger, Diplomacy and Adventure in the Great Game John Ure 9781849016674
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.56Back in the day when men were men and Britain ruled the world, the two great world powers went head to head over control of central Asia - from the Caucasus to Kabul. This was the stage of open... -
Hunted Through Central Asia: On the Run from Lenin's Secret Police by Paul Nazaroff
Booksplease Price: £28.91'My position was uncomfortable. Here was I, in an absolutely exposed place, with Red Guards and commissars on every side. I had very little money left and no means of transport at all.' Paul... -
Shooting Leave: Spying out Central Asia in the Great Game by John Ure 9781849014694
Booksplease Price: £20.70Snow leopards and Cossacks can both be dangerous. But to young British officers in India in the nineteenth century there was only one thing more exciting than shooting wild game in the mountains and... -
A Carpet Ride to Khiva: Seven Years on the Silk Road by Christopher Aslan Alexander 9781848311497
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.13The Silk Road conjures images of the exotic and the unknown. Most travellers simply pass along it. Brit Chris Alexander chose to live there. Ostensibly writing a guidebook, Alexander found life at...