The Great Game by Peter Hopkirk - Folio Society 2010 1st Ed
1st Edition from 2010
On secret Service in High Asia. Although the phrase “The Great Game” was immortalised in Rudyard Kipling’s turn of the century adventure novel, Kim, it originated decades earlier, its source Captain Arthur Conolly, one if its early players. The phrase refers to that period in Central Asian history, mainly in the 19th century, when Russia and Britain were engaged in a power struggle for the region. In the expert hands of Peter Hopkirk, this story and its main characters are brought to life.
"In the 19th and early 20th centuries, Imperial Britain and Russia competed in a "Great Game" of espionage and covert diplomacy across the vast chequer-board of Central Asia. As the machinations increased, the characters involved became ever more colorful: Alexander 'Bokhara' Burns, the master spy who brought the British to Afghanistan and was hacked to death by a mob n Kabul; Arthur Conolly, who journeyed on horseback from Moscow to India, disguised as a Persian merchant; and Major-General Mikhail Cherniaev, dubbed 'the Lion on Tashkent'. Peter Hopkirk brilliantly evokes those turbulent years, and whilst the Great Game officially ended with the Anglo-Russian Convention of 1907, its violent repercussions continue to be felt in the region and across the world today." --from the Publisher.
Folio Society First Edition
Publisher Folio Society, London; 2010
Grey Cloth Hardback, 510 pp
With maps to endpapers, coloured frontispiece, six further maps and numerous colour illustrations, prints and photographs
Size 250 x 170mm, 1.8kg
Slipcover included
Mint unread condition.
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