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Peter Hopkirk
Peter Hopkirk has traveled widely in the regions where his six books are set - Central Asia, the Caucasus, China, India and Pakistan, Iran, and Eastern Turkey. He has worked as an ITN reporter, the New York correspondent of the old Daily Express, and - for twenty years - on The Times. No stranger... show more

Peter Hopkirk has traveled widely in the regions where his six books are set - Central Asia, the Caucasus, China, India and Pakistan, Iran, and Eastern Turkey. He has worked as an ITN reporter, the New York correspondent of the old Daily Express, and - for twenty years - on The Times. No stranger to misadventure, he has twice been held in secret police cells and has also been hijacked by Arab terrorists. His works have been translated into fourteen languages.
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Birth date: December 15, 1930
Died: August 22, 2014
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Wyvernfriend Reads
Wyvernfriend Reads rated it 12 years ago
Peter Hopkirk fulfils a life-long dream to find the places mentioned in Kim and follow his trail. He finds that a lot of the places Kipling mentions in the story are real, or based on real places, however borders and wards have changed the landscape forever. It's interesting but sometimes it isn't...
thomcat
thomcat rated it 12 years ago
I really enjoyed this collection of tales of the first non-asians to enter Tibet. Many published their own accounts later, but this was an excellent summary, and had the pacing of a thriller at times. It took me only seven days to read it in my few off hours.With two major libraries near me, only on...
Bettie's Books
Bettie's Books rated it 12 years ago
A brief history of Tibet where the original Gods descended by ropes from the sky and skittled back up to heaven as and when the notion appealed to them, however one of the ropes became severed and that is where the race of Tibetans originates.A thousand years later Buddhism hits, that bastardised fo...
Bettie's Books
Bettie's Books rated it 12 years ago
The Orientalist page 58
joshmunn
joshmunn rated it 12 years ago
Fascinating, but really yoked two totally separate subjects into one book.
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