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On Secret Service East of Constantinople by Peter Hopkirk
29.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Not a Ser.
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 ...Show more
The Great Game by Peter HOPKIRK
26.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Not a Ser. | Reading Level: very good
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 by Kipling. When play first began the two riva ...Show more
Trespassers on the Roof of the World by Peter Hopkirk
24.99 AUD
Category: History
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 openi ...Show more
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