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 Mairi Huntington. This book was released on 1985-01-01. The Great Game available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
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 2001. 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 in Kipling's Kim. When play firstbegan the two rival empires lay nearly 2,000 miles apart. By the end, some Russian outposts were within 20 miles of India.This 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 horsetraders, they mapped secret passes, gathered intelligence, and sought the allegiance of powerful khans. Some neverreturned.
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 John Steele Gordon. This book was released on 2000-08-01. The Great Game available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
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 1994-05-15. The Great Game available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. THE GREATGAME: THE EPIC STORY BEHIND TODAY’S HEADLINES Peter Hopkirk’s spellbinding account of the great imperial struggle for supremacy in Central Asoa has been hailed as essential reading with that era’s legacy playing itself out today. The Great Game between Victorian Britain and Tsarist Russia was fought across desolate terrain from the Caucasus to China, over the lonely passes of the Parmirs and Karakorams, in the blazing Kerman and Helmund deserts, and through the caravan towns of the old Silk Road—both powers scrambling to control access to the riches of India and the East. When play first began, the frontiers of Russia and British India lay 2000 miles apart; by the end, this distance had shrunk to twenty miles at some points. Now, in the vacuum left by the disintegration of the Soviet Union, there is once again talk of Russian soldiers "dipping their toes in the Indian Ocean." The Washington Post has said that "every story Peter Hopkirk touches is totally engrossing." In this gripping narrative he recounts a breathtaking tale of espionage and treachery through the actual experiences of its colorful characters. Based on meticulous scholarship and on-the-spot research, this is the history at the core of today’s geopolitics.
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 Jenny Moon. This book was released on 2023-06-23. The Great Game available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Kiera’s home life is not happy. One day on her way to school, Kiera sees a tiny ship floating in the gutter. It has on its deck the key that she lost the day before and for the loss of which she has been punished. The ship looks so real... She rescues the ship from a dreadful fate. Later, this time with Jai, she sees the ship again and they sail into the start of some incredible and quite magical experiences in the alternative world of Tisany. Kiera and Jai find that they have been taken to Tisany because they can help solve problems there. Through adventures involving stormy sailing, the Seeing Well, caves and snakes, a visit to a colourful souk in a city of towers, a long donkey ride through mountains, hostile chiefs and cheating travellers, The Great Game is developed and played in a sometimes frightening and dramatic finale. And weaving in and out of the events on Tisany, there are happenings at home too that lead Kiera towards a happier situation.
