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  | | Foreign Devils on the Silk Road(Updated) The Search for the Lost Treasures of Central Asia by Peter Hopkirk Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 2006 by John Murray ISBN-13: 978-0-7195-6448-2, ISBN: 0-7195-6448-4 "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 decline. The traffic slowed, the merchants left and finally its towns vanished beneath the desert sands to be forgotten for a thousand yea ..." |
 | | Quest for Kim In Search of Kipling's Great Game by Peter Hopkirk, Janina Slater Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2006 by John Murray Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-7195-6452-9, ISBN: 0-7195-6452-2 "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 how much of it remains. To attempt this with a fictional hero would normally be pointless. But Kim is different. For much of this Grea ..." |
 | | Trespassers on the Roof of the World The Race for Lhasa by Peter Hopkirk Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2006 by John Murray Publishers Ltd ISBN-13: 978-0-7195-6449-9, ISBN: 0-7195-6449-2 "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 opening up of this medieval Buddhist kingdom by inquisitive Western travellers during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and the race to ..." |
 | | Trespassers on the Roof of the World(Reprint) The Secret Exploration of Tibet (Kodansha Globe) by Peter Hopkirk, Peter Hopkins Paperback, 286 Pages, Published 1995 by Kodansha Globe ISBN-13: 978-1-56836-050-8, ISBN: 1-56836-050-9 "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 isolation, determined travelers from Victorian Britain, Czarist Russia, America, and a half dozen other countries world try to breach the ..." |
 | | The Great Game(Reprint) The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia (Kodansha Globe) by Peter Hopkirk Paperback, 564 Pages, Published 1994 by Kodansha International ISBN-13: 978-1-56836-022-5, ISBN: 1-56836-022-3 "In a phrase coined by Captain Arthur Connolly of the East India Company before he was beheaded in Bokhara for spying in 1842, a "Great Game" was played between Tsarist Russia and Victorian England for supremacy in Central Asia. At stake was the security of India, key to the wealth of the British Empire. When play began early in the 19th century, the frontiers of the two imperial powers lay two thousand miles apart, across vast deserts a ..." |
 | | Setting the East Ablaze(Reprint) Lenin's Dream of an Empire in Asia by Peter Hopkirk Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 2006 by John Murray ISBN-13: 978-0-7195-6450-5, ISBN: 0-7195-6450-6 "'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 first time the story of the Bolshevik attempt to set the East ablaze with the heady new gospel of Marxism. Lenin's dream was to liberate the whole of Asia, but his starting point was British India. A shadowy undeclared war followed. Among the p ..." |
 | | The Great Game(Reprint) On Secret Service in High Asia by Peter Hopkirk, No Listed Paperback, 566 Pages, Published 2006 by John Murray Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-7195-6447-5, ISBN: 0-7195-6447-6 "In a phrase coined by Captain Arthur Connolly of the East India Company before he was beheaded in Bokhara for spying in 1842, a "Great Game" was played between Tsarist Russia and Victorian England for supremacy in Central Asia. At stake was the security of India, key to the wealth of the British Empire. When play began early in the 19th century, the frontiers of the two imperial powers lay two thousand miles apart, across vast deserts a ..." |
 | | On Secret Service East of Constantinople(Reprint) by Peter Hopkirk, John Murray Paperback, Published 2006 by John Murray ISBN-13: 978-1-4447-2655-8, ISBN: 1-4447-2655-2 |
 | | Foreign Devils on the Silk Road(Updated) The Search for the Lost Treasures of Central Asia by Peter Hopkirk Paperback, 264 Pages, Published 2001 by Oxford University Press Import ISBN-13: 978-0-19-280211-8, ISBN: 0-19-280211-9 "The Silk Road, which linked imperial Rome and distant China, was once the greatest thoroughfare on earth. Along it traveled precious cargoes of silk, gold and ivory, as well as revolutionary new ideas. Its oasis towns blossomed into thriving centers of Buddhist art and learning. In time it began to decline. The traffic slowed, the merchants left and finally its towns vanished beneath the desert sands to be forgotten for a thousand years ..." |
 | | Quest for Kim(1st Edition) in search of Kipling's Great Game by Peter Hopkirk, Janina Slater Hardcover, 274 Pages, Published 1996 by John Murray Import ISBN-13: 978-0-7195-5560-2, ISBN: 0-7195-5560-4 "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 how much of it remains. To attempt this with a fictional hero would normally be pointless. But Kim is different. For much of this Great ..." |
 | | Foreign Devils on the Silk Road(4th Edition) The Search for Lost Cities and Treasures of Chinese Central Asia (Oxford Paperbacks) by Peter Hopkirk, Bill Hybels Hardcover, 192 Pages, Published 1990 by Minneapolis: Grason, 1990 ISBN-13: 978-0-19-281487-6, ISBN: 0-19-281487-7 "The Silk Road, the great trans-Asian highway linking Imperial Rome to China, reached the height of its importance during the T'ang Dynasty. Along it travelled precious cargoes as well as new ideas, art and knowledge. Its oasis towns blossomed into thriving centres of trade. However, as the Chinese lost control of the region, it began to decline to the point where the towns disappeared beneath desert sands. Local legends grew of buried t ..." |
 | | Quest for "Kim"(Updated) In Search of Kipling's Great Game by Peter Hopkirk, Janina Slater Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2001 by Oxford Paperbacks ISBN-13: 978-0-19-280231-6, ISBN: 0-19-280231-3 "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 how much of it remains. To attempt this with a fictional hero would normally be pointless; but Kim is different. For much of this Great ..." |
 | | Quest for Kim(Updated) In Search of Kipling's Great Game by Peter Hopkirk Paperback, 284 Pages, Published 1997 by Oxford Univ Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-19-283308-2, ISBN: 0-19-283308-1 "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 explores the many mysteries surrounding Kipling's great novel. He shows that most of the characters - Kim himself, the old Tibetan lama, Colonel Creighton, Mahbub Ali, Lurgan Sahib and the B ..." |
 | | My Life as an Explorer(1st Edition) The Great Adventurers Classic Memoir (Kodansha Globe) by Sven Anders Hedin, Peter Hopkirk, Alfhild Huebsch, Philip Turner Paperback, 560 Pages, Published 1996 by Kodansha Usa Illustrated ISBN-13: 978-1-56836-142-0, ISBN: 1-56836-142-4 "FROM THE SILK ROAD AND TIBET, THE EPIC MEMOIR OF A BESTSELLING ADVENTUREOver the course of three decades, Sven Hedin traveled the ancient Silk Road, discovered long-lost cities, mapped previously uncharted rivers, and saw more of "the roof of the world" than any European before him. This epic memoir captures the splendor of now-vanished civilizations, the excitement of unearthing ancient monuments, the chilling terrors of snow-clogged m ..." |
 | | On Secret Service East of Constantinople The Plot to Bring Down the British Empire by Peter Hopkirk Hardcover, 324 Pages, Published 1994 by John Murray Import ISBN-13: 978-0-7195-5017-1, ISBN: 0-7195-5017-3 "Shipped from UK, please allow 10 to 21 business days for arrival. Good, A very good, clean and sound copy in black cloth boards with gold gilt title on spine. Dust jacket is price-clipped and a little rubbed/faded on spine. On secret service east of Constantinople: the plot to bring down the British Empire. 431p.." |
 | | Trespassers on the Roof of the World(1st Edition) by Peter Hopkirk Paperback, Published 1990 by Tarcher ISBN-13: 978-0-87477-576-1, ISBN: 0-87477-576-0 "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 isolation, determined travelers from Victorian Britain, Czarist Russia, America, and a half dozen other countries world try to breach the ..." |
 | | Setting the East Ablaze(1st Edition) Lenin's Dream of an Empire in Asia (Oxford Paperbacks) by Peter Hopkirk Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 1986 by Oxford Paperbacks ISBN-13: 978-0-19-285166-6, ISBN: 0-19-285166-7 "As the European revolution failed to materialize, Lenin decreed, `Let us turn our faces towards Asia. The East will help us to conquer the West.' Pieced together from secret reports and eye-witness memoirs, this is the first book to tell the story of the Bolshevik attempt to spread Marxism throughout Asia and its frustration by British Indian intelligence agents. An extraordinary story of the intrigue and treachery of the Great Game, it ..." |
 | | Trespassers on the Roof of the World(Reprint) The Race for Lhasa by Peter Hopkirk Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 1983 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-285132-1, ISBN: 0-19-285132-2 "Hidden behind the Himalayas and ruled over by a God-king, Tibet has always cast a powerful spell over travellers form the West. In this remarkable, and ultimately tragic narrative, Peter Hopkirk recounts the forcible opening up of this medieval land during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and the extraordinary race between agents, soldiers, missionaries, mountaineers, explorers, and mystics from nine different countries to reach ..." |
 | | A Ride to Khiva(1st Edition) by Frederick Burnaby, Peter Hopkirk Paperback, 414 Pages, Published 2002 by Oxford Paperbacks ISBN-13: 978-0-19-280367-2, ISBN: 0-19-280367-0 "'He who once enters Khiva abandons all hope, as surely as one who enters Hell. His prison house is girdled with trackless deserts, whose sole inhabitants are the sellers of human flesh.' In the winter of 1875, a young British officer set out across central Asia on a strictly unofficial mission to investigate the latest secret Russian moves in the Great Game. His goal was the mysterious caravan city of Khiva, closed to all European trav ..." |
 | | On Secret Service East of Constantinople(Updated) The Plot to Bring Down the British Empire by Peter Hopkirk Paperback, 448 Pages, Published 2001 by Oxford Paperbacks ISBN-13: 978-0-19-280230-9, ISBN: 0-19-280230-5 "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 world domination as its ultimate aim. German hawks dreamed of driving the British out of India and creating a vast new Teutonic empire i ..." |
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