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...
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...
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...
Reading Rudyard Kipling's Kim has me looking for a nonfiction book about the Great Game, the 19th / 20th century proto-Cold War between Russia and the US over control of Central Asia. (At least, it was something like that. I haven't read the book yet.)Internet research seems clear that this is THE b...
Hopkirk writes in a way that these British and Russian spies, adventurers, explorers read like fictional heroes playing a huge, masterly game of chess in one of the most mysterious, dangerous and incredible place in the world.I loved it. It reads like a novel but it's not. It's from the British poin...
It's wonderful. It reads like a novel. But it's the real account of the lives and expeditions of the British, German, French and Russian archaeologists, orientalists that explored the Silk road at the turn of the 1900's. It's fascinating, entertaining, thrilling to read. Hopkirk knows his subjects, ...
Absolutely fascinating account of the power struggle between Great Britain and Russia in Asia. What I loved the most is that author talks about the big picture through the small pictures of those who were participating in the Great Game and their fates.
Far from exhaustive but certainly exhausting to read, this history of England and Russia skirmishing over who gets to be in charge of central Asia was fascinating. 500-odd pages and one only skims the surface. The sheer grit of the early explorers is astonishing- facing horrible conditions and alien...
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