Mapping the Great Game - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mapping the Great Game write by Riaz Dean. This book was released on 2020-01-19. Mapping the Great Game available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The work of explorers, surveyors and spies in the race to conquer Southern Asia is vividly recounted in this history of British imperial cartography. In the 19th century, the British and Russian empires were engaged in bitter rivalry for the acquisition of Southern Asian. Although India was the ultimate prize, most of the intrigue and action took place along its northern frontier in Afghanistan, Turkestan and Tibet. Mapping the region and gaining knowledge of the enemy were crucial to the interests of both sides. The Great Trigonometrical Survey of India began in the 18th century with the aim of creating a detailed map of the subcontinent. Under the leadership of George Everest—whose name was later bestowed to the world’s tallest mountain—the it mapped the Great Arc running from the country’s southern tip to the Himalayas. Much of the work was done by Indian explorers known as Pundits. They were the first to reveal the mysteries of the forbidden city of Lhasa, and discover the true course of Tibet’s mighty Tsangpo River. These explorers performed essential information gathering for the British Empire and filled in large portions of the map of Asia. Their adventurous exploits are vividly recounted in Mapping the Great Game.
Great Map Games
Great Map Games - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Great Map Games write by Susan Julio. This book was released on 2000-08. Great Map Games available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Get students on the road to success with 20 fun, reproducible games that teach important map and geography skills. Kids learn how to read street maps, identifying land and water formations, determine longitude and latitude, and more.
The Great Game
The Great Game - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Great Game write by Peter Hopkirk. This book was released on 2006-03-27. The Great Game available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 rival empires lay nearly 2,000 miles apart. By the end, some Russian outposts were within 20 miles of India. This classic book tells the story of the Great Game through the exploits of the young officers, both British and Russian, who risked their lives playing it. Disguised as holy men or native horse-traders, they mapped secret passes, gathered intelligence and sought the allegiance of powerful khans. Some never returned. The violent repercussions of the Great Game are still convulsing Central Asia today.
Rowland Ward's Records of Big Game
Rowland Ward's Records of Big Game - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rowland Ward's Records of Big Game write by Rowland Ward. This book was released on 1928. Rowland Ward's Records of Big Game available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Small Players of the Great Game
The Small Players of the Great Game - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Small Players of the Great Game write by Pirouz Mojtahed-Zadeh. This book was released on 2004-07-31. The Small Players of the Great Game available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book deals with the 19th century Anglo-Russian Great Game played out on the territorial chessboard of eastern and north-eastern parts of the waning Persian empire. The Great Game itself has been written about extensively, but never from a Persian angle and from the point of view of the local players in that game. Looking at the territorial consequences of the Great Game for the local players is a unique approach, which deserves a special place in the studies of history, geography, politics and geopolitics of the age of modernity.
